TILBURY (EAST), a parish in the hundred of BARSTABLE,
county of ESSEX, 5 miles (E. by S.) from
Grays-Thurrock, containing, with the liberty of East
Lee, 264 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of
London, rated in the king's books at £ 13. 6. 8., and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Margaret. The parish is bounded on the southeast
by part of the Thames, called the Hope, where, on
Hope point, is a battery for the defence of the river below
Tilbury Fort. The lofty tower of the manor-house
of Gossalyne was battered down by the Dutch fleet,
which ascended the Thames in the reign of Charles IL
In this parish was an ancient ferry; it is said to be the
place where Claudius passed the Thames in pursuit of
the Britons.