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GRAYS THURROCK, or GRAYS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAYS THURROCK, or GRAYS , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:south-eastern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, on the See also:Thames, 20 M. E. by S. from See also:London by the London, Tilbury & Southend railway. Pop. (19o1) 13,834. The See also:church of St See also:Peter and St See also:Paul, wholly rebuilt, retains some See also:Norman See also:work. The See also:town takes its name from a See also:family of See also:Gray who held the See also:manor for three centuries from 1149. There are an endowed and two training See also:ship See also:schools. See also:Roman remains have been found in the vicinity; and the See also:geological formations exhibiting the See also:process of silting up of a former See also:river channel are exposed in the quarries, and contain large mammalian remains. The town has See also:trade in bricks, See also:lime and See also:cement.

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