PURFLEET, a township in the parish of WEST-THURROCK, hundred of CHAFFORD, county of ESSEX, 16 miles (E. by S.) from London. The population is returned with the parish. It is situated at; the mouth of a rivulet, which empties itself into the Thames. The village is chiefly inhabited by people employed in the extensive lime-works and chalk-pits. The walks among the vast caverns which have been excavated in the neighbourhood are romantic, and the views from the elevations remarkably fine. Here are considerable bomb-proof magazines for gunpowder, belonging to government.