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EFC Centre at Wat Tyler Country ParkOur centre is available for visits on a pre-booked basis on Wednesdays between 10am - 4pm. The Club’s activities and displays are also usually open to the public on the first Saturday of the month 11am - 4pm.

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Purfleet-on-Thames

previous pageBluelands Purfleet Grays Hornchurch Tilbury South Ockendon Belhus Park Gravesend Basildon Barking Ilford Stratford Dagenham Stanford-le-Hope Upminster Bexley Bromley Chislehurst Sidcup Welling Greenwich Woodford Chigwell Ingrave Billericay Romford Chadwell Heath Havering-atte-Bower Dartford Brentwood Shenfield Bluelands. Ancient River Thames. Purfleet Commercial Park (Bluelands). River Thames today. Langdon Hills. Brentwood. M25 bridge across Mar Dyke. Quarried river gravel. Ancient riverbank. Quarried chalk. View looking eastwards today. View of the Bluelands site looking eastwards 320,000 yrs ago. Bluelands site now, before the development of Purfleet Commercial Park 320,000 years ago, the Thames was in its present valley, but it flowed north of its present course. It looped from Ilford and Hornchurch, through South Ockendon and then flowed westwards past Purfleet. Illustration: Peter David Scott.next page