The mansion of Nelmes survived until it was demolished in 1967 to avoid preservation by the Civic Amenities Act and was replaced with a small housing estate called The Witherings.

Emerson Park is located 15 miles (24.1 km) northeast of Charing Cross in Central London.

[4] The London, Tilbury and Southend built a branch line from Upminster to Romford in 1893 which skirted the southern boundary of Nelmes manor.

A station, initially called Emerson Park and Great Nelmes Halt, was opened on 1 October 1909.

[5] The Emerson Park Stores was converted to a club for the Hornchurch Liberal association, with an official opening on 16 June 1910.

[6] In 1894 the Nelmes estate, in the parish of Hornchurch, is listed as comprising two houses, three farms, market gardens and other land, totalling 550 acres (2.2 km2).

[7] In 1895 the southern part of Nelmes manor, comprising 200 acres (0.81 km2), was sold by Benjamin H Newman to William Carter.

[8] The house was demolished by Platford in 1967 to avoid a preservation order by the Greater London Council as part of the incoming Civic Amenities Act 1967.

The Emerson Park electoral ward revision in 2022 more closely approximates the neighbourhood, by removing land north of the A127 Southend Arterial Road and west of The Ravensbourne.