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Built largely upon the site of former chalk and brick earth quarries, Chafford Hundred is a contemporary residential landscape that sits between the older settlements of Grays and South Ockendon. The area’s geography is its most defining feature; the steep chalk pits of its industrial past have been transformed into deep, green basins like Chafford Gorges Nature Park, providing a dramatic counterpoint to the suburban streets above. It is a highly permeable neighborhood, designed with a network of footpaths that link the housing clusters to the railway station and the nearby Intu Lakeside shopping complex. While much of the architecture dates from the 1990s onwards, the name itself is an ancient one, seafaring back to the 'hundred' - a traditional Saxon administrative division of Essex. Today, it functions as a self-contained hub with its own schools and amenities, anchored by the rail link that puts Fenchurch Street just over half an hour away.