VILLAGE HISTORY

The village has a wealth of history having been a centre for trade and also situated on the main route from East Anglia to Kent and the channel ports.

Ferries across the Thames at Tilbury date back to Roman times although the first documented reference to this is 1399.

Horndon rose to a position of considerable social and commercial importance during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is only in the present century that it has adopted a more retiring position compared with its newer neighbour to the south.

The buildings in the village reflect its antiquity and importance. The parish church of St Peter and St Paul was largely completed in 1315 and stands on the site of a much earlier building. The oldest part of the present building was consecrated in 1230.