Stanford-le-hope
Stanford-le-Hope is a town as well as Church of England parish positioned in the county of Essex, England. Commonly understood in your area simply as Stanford, the town is within the unitary authority of Thurrock as well as located 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 some other locations of Thurrock, Stanford-le-Hope is bordered by countryside as well as farmland. Stanford-le-Hope is surrounded to the north by the A13 road and to the south by the Thames Estuary. It lies 12.7 miles (20.5 km) west of Southend-on-Sea. The community centre has a village pity its 800-year-old church, St Margarets making a noticeable as well as attractive spots around which shops, bars and also dining establishments have grown to create a lively core to the town. As Stanford-le-Hope grows in dimension, it has started to include adjoining settlements 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, goes through the community. Locally there are a variety of parks as well as nature gets, significantly Thurrock Thameside Nature Reserve, with a site visitor centre supplying views backwards and forwards the Thames throughout both commercial as well as natural landscapes consisting of the Mucking Flats SSSI.