From handwritten sources held by the Church, Thorrington has also been known as Turituna (1152–71); Torritona (1202), Thurituna (1237), Thurington (1248), Thurinton (1253).

At the point where the brook flows into the Alresford Creek (a branch of the Colne Estuary) stands Thorrington Mill.

The village is now almost connected by recently-built (2000s) housing to Thorrington Cross, a hamlet of mixed industrial & retail premises, smallholdings and inter-war ribbon development villas at the crossroads of the B1029 (the Brightlingsea road) and the B1027 (Wivenhoe to Clacton).

Thorrington's station - spelled 'Thorrington' on the Ordnance Survey map, but 'Thorington' as far as the railway companies were concerned - was opened in 1867, and closed in 1957.

[5] The current Harwich and North Essex MP who represents the area in the House of Commons is the Rt Hon Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative).

[5] Thorrington was the name of the home of an estate agent, Charles Clark (1824–1906), who arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, from England in 1856.