Nearest places: Nearest stations: Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products including Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ.

[3] The large coal-burning West Thurrock Power Station closed in 1993, and was replaced by a plant making industrial chemicals, particularly the raw materials for detergent manufacture.

West Thurrock was formerly the site of a large chalk quarrying and cement making industry.

[4] West Thurrock is the location of the Lakeside Shopping Centre on the site of a chalk quarry owned by Tunnel Cement.

Belmont Castle, England, a neo-Gothic mansion, was built in West Thurrock in 1795[6] but was demolished in 1943 to make way for a chalk quarry.