For sewerage purposes from 1875 (with Grays Thurrock until 1886) they formed the Orsett Rural Sanitary District, and during the latter's currency the divorce of Civil parishes in England from ecclesiastical parishes finalised nationally.
Between 1875 and 1886, a sanitary district named Orsett Rural Sanitary District was formed for sewerage purposes. This coincided with the national implementation of the division of civil parishes from ecclesiastical parishes in England.