Coordinates: 51°31′N 0°22′E / 51.51°N 0.37°E / 51.51; 0.37
Orsett is a village and ecclesiastical parish located within Thurrock unitary district in Essex, England, situated around 5 km north-east of Grays.
It has historically been a primarily agricultural community situated at the southern edge of the old ice age flood plain traversed by the river Mardyke.
Orsett contains a ring and bailey earthwork known locally as Bishop Bonner's palace. On the gravel terrace, there is a neolithic causewayed enclosure discovered as a result of crop marks which showed on aerial photographs taken by Dr St Joseph of Cambridge University. It has three concentric ditches with a number of breaks or causeways. The enclosure was used as a burial ground by the Saxons and contained at least three barrows visible on the aerial photo.
Orsett Heath in the south of the parish was formerly part of an extensive area of heathland that included Terrel's Heath.
The centre of Orsett is aligned on an east-west axis along the High Road on which is the parish church of St Giles and All Saints along with the animal pound and lock-up opposite Rowley Road. Its former workhouse on Rowley Road was developed into a large modern hospital in the 1960s but has, since the 1980s, been reduced in size once again. Most of the former shops in the High Road, including the Post Office opposite the Church and the blacksmith's in Rowley Road have closed to be replaced by just one convenience store which contains a sub post office.
A long day is winding down
The neighbors are arriving
The street noise is dying away
As they go into hiding
The mail says lots of things
I find no use in knowing
It sits, closed, atop the bin
your name, my address showing
But there?s a sunset
Over hope street
There?s a sunset
Over hope street
I want to wish
To wish you what you want
Most times it?s plain to see
You?re driving someone crazy
But then there are other ones
When someone just gets lazy
And there?s a sunset
Over hope street
There?s a sunset
Over hope street
I want you wish
To wish you what you want
There?s a sunset
Over hope street
There?s a sunset
Over hope street
But you are what
Yeah you are what I want
But you are what