Purfleet 1863 Whites directory
PURFLEET is a village and military station on the north side of the river Thames, at the mouth of a rivulet, and at the west end of West Thurrock, to which parish it is a hamlet, though sometimes called a township. It is 16 miles E. by S. of London, and 8miles S.E. by S. of Romford, and has a pleasure fair on the 13th of June; and a station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway. The harbour is only used by small craft, and adjoining it is alarge government powder magazine, consisting of five detached bomb-proof and well-protected store-houses, barracks for a company of artillery, a store keeper’s mansion, and a good quay. This magazine was built in 1781, and has room for the safe keeping of 60,000 barrels of gun powder. The village is on rising ground, and in the vicinity numerous romantic scenes are formed by the high projecting chalk rocks, interspersed with deep and extensive caverns. Of these chalk hills, and those on the Kentish side of the Thames, the lofty Beacon Cliff, which overlooks the village, commands an extensive prospect; finely interspersed with woods, gentlemen’s seats, farm houses, villages, &c.
PURFLEET AND WEST THURROCK.
Those marked * are in Purfleet, and the others in West Thurrock.
There are POST OFFICES in both villages. Letters via Grays.
Anderson Geo. farmer, Tunnel House
*Kennedy Thomas, schoolmaster
*Barnes William, grocer, &c.
*Blows James, butcher
Button William, beer retailer
*Cass John, waterman
Christmas Charles, bricklayer
Clark William, shopkeeper
*Cottle Charles L. station master
Cowland Mary, victualler, Old Ship
Curtis George Joseph, Dove Farm
Curtis John Edward, farmer
Dodd Thomas, carpenter
*Gunning Robert, gardener
*Gunpowder Magazine, Thos. A. G. Satchwell, storekeeper ; Chas. E. Ralph, and G. A. Jolley, clerks ; and Dd. B. Maxted, foreman
Greatrex George, parish clerk. Post Office
Hammond William, victualler, Fox and Goose
*Harman Mr Benjamin
Hodgson William
Ingleton Sarah, schoolmistress
Ives Jas. Fras. & William Robert, butchers
Joyner John Eaton, Esq. High House
Kennedy Thomas, schoolmaster
Lethbridge Rev. Elford C. curate
*Maxted David Brice, Post Office
May William, farmer, Home Farm
*Newman George, carpenter
Nokes Charles, miller, Steam Mill
*Poulton Thomas, shopkeeper
Powell Stephen,wheelwright,builder, and undertaker
*Sanford Chas. Edward, baker, &c.
*Satchwell Thos. A. G. storekeeper
*Simons James, shoemaker
*Whitbread William Henry, Esq.
*Wingrove Jno. G. victualler, Purfleet Hotel.
RAILWAY. Trains from Purfleet Station to London, Southend, &c.