Living in Upminster: area guide to homes, schools and transport links | Homes and Property

Upminster’s not-so-distant rural past has left its mark, with one of London’s few remaining windmills, currently undergoing restoration; a large 15th-century tithe barn, now used as a museum displaying agricultural equipment; a collection of period buildings in what was once the isolated village of Corbets Tey to the south of the town centre; a medieval manor house that belonged to Henry VIII’s fixer, Thomas Cromwell, and is now home to the local golf club, and an 18th-century vicar who improved on the work of Isaac Newton.