Seldom has a place been more aptly named. This tiny Essex hamlet, Saxon in origin, is today little more than a few houses and a deconsecrated church, its graveyard rudely used as a car park. It is close to the sticky wetlands of the Thames Estuary near Thurrock, but for years it has also been right next to an enormous landfill site. This is where much of London's rubbish used to end up, brought in lighter convoys down the river. But now the i82ha site is full, and is being capped with earth and landscaped to Environment Agency specifications.
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