However, a new community-run shop and post office opened in early 2020, in a side extension of the village hall.

It is located 21 miles (34 km) east north-east of Charing Cross in London.

The Upminster post town forms a long, thin protrusion eastwards over the M25 motorway and the Greater London boundary in order to include the village.

[4] Nearest places are Laindon, North Ockendon, Orsett and West Horndon.

Bulphan has two bus services: the 265, which runs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between Grays and West Horndon and the 565 to Brentwood Station via West Horndon (6 times per day, Monday to Saturday).