West Tilbury

West Tilbury is a village in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It stands on a 30-metre (98 ft) high ridge of land overlooking the River Thames. It lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-east of Tilbury, its post town.

West Tilbury and neighbouring East Tilbury had formed a single territory in Saxon times, which subsequently fragmented into two parishes. Tilbury Fort on the River Thames was built in the reign of Henry VIII as part of London's defences against an attack from France. The fort straddled the parishes of West Tilbury and Chadwell St Mary. The new town of Tilbury grew up around docks built to the west of the fort in the 19th century. Although sharing its name with West Tilbury and East Tilbury, the town of Tilbury was in Chadwell St Mary parish.

The civil parish of West Tilbury was abolished in 1936 on the creation of Thurrock Urban District, which in turn became the modern borough of Thurrock in 1974. The ecclesiastical parish has also been abolished, and the area now forms part of a Church of England ecclesiastical parish called "East and West Tilbury and Linford".