Stanford-le-hope
Stanford-le-Hope is a town as well as Church of England parish located in the region of Essex, England. Typically known locally merely as Stanford, the town is within the unitary authority of Thurrock and situated 23.8 miles (38.4 km) east of Charing Cross in London. Its principal specialty is that Joseph Conrad lived and composed there. Unlike a few other locations of Thurrock, Stanford-le-Hope is bordered by countryside and farmland. Stanford-le-Hope is bordered to the north by the A13 road and to the south by the Thames Estuary. It is located 12.7 miles (20.5 km) west of Southend-on-Sea. The community centre has a town pity its 800-year-old church, St Margarets making a popular and eye-catching spots around which stores, clubs and dining establishments have actually grown to create a dynamic core to the community. As Stanford-le-Hope expands in size, it has actually begun to include adjoining negotiations such as Corringham, Mucking and also Fobbing, the latter of which was the scene of one of the uprisings which brought about the Peasants' Revolt. The River Hope, a tributary of the Thames, runs through the community. Locally there are a number of parks and also nature books, especially Thurrock Thameside Nature Reserve, with a visitor centre providing sights backwards and forwards the Thames across both commercial and also natural landscapes consisting of the Mucking Flats SSSI.