South Ockendon is a village and Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and also unitary district in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It is located on the border with Greater London, simply outside the M25 motorway. The area to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town became an area for premade homes (prefabs) suiting bombed-out citizens of East London/West Essex in the extremely late 40s. Much of the original post-war construction was undertaken by former German prisoners of war. The majority of these were demolished in the late-1960s when a big Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" construction houses-- the Flowers' Estate-- was constructed to replace them, one more time with pre-fabricated homes, albeit of a premium style. The Lecaplan Kind B kind of pre-cast concrete (big panel concrete) terrace is built in rows of 8 residential properties to a style by J C Tilley and made by W. & C. French. In the 1970s the Ford Motor Company factory at Aveley housed Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations which built automobiles such as the RS1600. The plant was wound down gradually from the late 90's however closed entirely in 2004, when the last 150 tasks were shed. Most of the 150 workers approved transfers to various other Ford or ancillary sites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was located along and west of the train line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has now been developed into new real estate estates, with street names after popular Ford cars in maintaining with the sites background.