The Campion and Emerson Park secondary schools border the estate.
In 2007, the school's Under-18 Rugby Union team were winners of the Daily Mail Cup, becoming the second comprehensive school victors of the prize, after Campion.
In 1714 Rectory Manor was reunited with Jordans Manor by William Blackborrne of Hornchurch, who left the two manors to Lincoln's Inn barrister Levett Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London.
In World War II he was posted to fly Spitfires as commanding officer of his old 54 Squadron, then based at Hornchurch, on 26 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain.
Hornchurch Priory was a hospital or priory in Hornchurch, now in the London Borough of Havering.
It starred Tony Roper and Peter Polycarpou and was produced by Rod Coton and Joe Scott-Parkinson in association with the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.