Stanford-le-hope
Stanford-le-Hope is a community as well as Church of England parish located in the county of Essex, England. Usually known in your area just as Stanford, the community is within the unitary authority of Thurrock and also situated 23.8 miles (38.4 km) east of Charing Cross in London. Its major specialty is that Joseph Conrad lived and also wrote there. Unlike a few other areas of Thurrock, Stanford-le-Hope is surrounded by countryside and also farmland. Stanford-le-Hope is surrounded to the north by the A13 road and also to the south by the Thames Estuary. It is located 12.7 miles (20.5 kilometres) west of Southend-on-Sea. The town centre has a town feel with its 800-year-old church, St Margarets making a prominent and eye-catching landmark around which shops, bars and restaurants have actually grown to produce a vibrant core to the town. As Stanford-le-Hope grows in size, it has actually started to incorporate neighbouring negotiations such as Corringham, Mucking as well as Fobbing, the latter of which was the scene of among the uprisings which resulted in the Peasants' Revolt. The River Hope, a tributary of the Thames, goes through the town. Locally there are a number of parks and nature gets, significantly Thurrock Thameside Nature Reserve, with a site visitor centre giving sights up and down the Thames throughout both industrial and natural landscapes including the Mucking Flats SSSI.
