Purfleet 1915 Essex Sheet 94.04 by Tony Kirby
This detailed map covers Purfleet, then a garrison village, where major features are Purfleet Barracks and Purfleet Camp. Also shown are the railway with Purfleet station, Purfleet Rifle Range station, Purfleet House, Botany, Royal Hotel, Military Hospital, rifle ranges, chalk quarries and industrial tramways. Tony Kirby provides an excellent history of the area, discussing its earlier days as a resort, and then how Purfleet Camp was established within weeks of the outbreak of World War 1.