East Tilbury

East Tilbury is a small, somewhat isolated settlement on the Thames marshes between Tilbury and Stanford-le-Hope. The most distinctive thing about it is the Bata estate, a planned village built in the 1930s by the Czech shoe company, with flat-roofed Modernist houses that look like nothing else in Essex. Beyond the Bata houses there are some newer builds and older cottages, but it still feels like a village that ran out of steam. There is almost nothing in the way of shops or services. You have your own station on the c2c line, which is something, but the service is slow and infrequent. Coalhouse Fort and the river path are good for walks, but day to day you are driving to Stanford or Grays for anything you need.

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