Geography
To the east is a small area of fenland, which extends into Bulphan and the rest is clays and Thames alluvials. The land is entirely 75 feet (23 m) below sea-level. The field boundaries are wholly rectilinear. To the far north, beyond the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, it borders the villages of Great Warley, Little Warley and Childerditch in the borough of Brentwood, the settlements of West Horndon and Bulphan to the east and South Ockendon to the south which is in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock. The parish church of St Mary Magdelene has a probably re-used Norman nave door on the south side of the nave.
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