Bill Meroy Creek

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Bill Meroy Creek is a small waterway flowing into the Thames to the east of Tilbury Fort in West Tilbury which from 1851 marked the eastern boundary of the area in which duty had to be paid on coal entering London.[1]

Bill Meroy Creek is to the east of Tilbury Fort in West Tilbury (within the Thurrock unitary authority).[2]

Name

The name of Bill Meroy Creek is a corruption of the name William Millroy who was an 18th-century cattle farmer.[3] It has also been known as Bilmaroy Creek and Billmarry Creek. It is named on some maps as Ordnance Creek.[4] It was previously known as Pincock's Creek.[5]

Coal Duty

1953 Floods

Notes

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