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Chadwell St Mary is an area of the unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex, England. It is one of the traditional (Church of England) parishes in Thurrock and a former civil parish. Grays is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the west and 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south is Tilbury. The area is sometimes referred to simply as Chadwell, particularly before the 19th ...
The original Chadwell parish church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and this is the source of the suffix "St Mary" in the modern name. It is a grade I listed building located at the crossroads overlooking the marshes. There was a church in Chadwell before the Norman conquest.
Biggin is a hamlet and manor in Chadwell St Mary, [1] part of the borough of Thurrock, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Tilbury and a similar distance east of Grays. Biggin on the 1777 Chapman & Andre map of Essex. The name can be spelled Byggin, Bigging or Begging.
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Until 1903, the marshland area was part of the traditional parish and civil parish of Chadwell St Mary, which reached south to the River Thames. The parish of Tilbury Docks was established in 1903 and the Tilbury Urban District Council (UDC) in 1912; it merged with Thurrock UDC in 1936. This in turn became a borough in 1984 and then the ...
Until 1 April 1936 it was in the parish of Wycomb and Chadwell. [3] The village name (originally recorded as Caudwell) [4] means 'spring/stream which is cold'. [5] Chadwell is half a mile east of Wycomb, and they share the Church of St. Mary in the same ecclesiastical parish. [6] The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building. [7]
The subject of amalgamation of riverside parishes was not new, with an unsuccessful proposal in 1911 to expand Grays Urban District to include Chadwell St Mary, Little Thurrock, West Thurrock and part of Stifford. [1] In March 1931, Essex County Council convened a conference of local authorities in the area to solicit their views.
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