Skip to the content
Essex Library Service Home
  • Home
  • Libraries
  • Events
  • News
    • Contact Us
    • Join
    • Login
Loading

Join Essex Library Service

Join
Can't find an item you are looking for?

 

If the item you want to reserve is not available, you can fill in a library request form

 

Lost something in one of our libraries?

 

Think you may have left something at a library? Please fill out our lost property form. The library will contact you within 5 working days. 

 

Our terms and policies

 

Accessibility

Privacy and data protection

Terms and conditions

Site Privacy Policy

Connect with us

 

  X Logo  

 

 

  Newsletter Icon

Receive library news and updates straight to your inbox

 

Sign up for Essex Library Service e-newsletters

  

 

Download our App
  Download on the Apple App Store

Get it on the Play Store

  
Contact us

Livechat

 

Web chat

Staff monitor Livechat between 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

 

To contact your local library directly, please fill out our enquiry form.

 

 

  

Enquiry form

 

You can complete the library enquiry form if you want to contact a library, have any questions, or if you want to pass on comments or suggestions about the library service. We aim to respond to your enquiries within 5 business days.   

 

Phone

 

 

You can call our Contact Centre on

0345 603 7628 

Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm, to speak to an advisor, or use the 24-hour automated service (option 1) to renew your items (also at weekends).

 

  

 

© 2026 LUCi by SOLUS - v 1.7.2.1

Great Tarpots Library | Our library locations and opening times | Libraries | Essex Library Service

    A-Z of Library Services

    Our library locations and opening times

    Summer Reading Challenge

    Join the library

    Reserve, renew or return an item

    Our Online Library

    Using our libraries

    Our mobile and home library services

    Basildon Library

    Billericay Library

    Braintree Library

    Brentwood Library

    Brightlingsea Library

    Broomfield Library

    Buckhurst Hill Library

    Burnham-on-Crouch Library

Great Tarpots Library

 

127 London Road
Benfleet
SS7 5UH

    

 

Contact the library

 

 

Opening hours for Great Tarpots Library

 

  • Monday - 9am to 5:30pm
  • Tuesday - 9am to 5:30pm
  • Wednesday - Closed
  • Thursday - 9am to 7pm
  • Friday - Closed
  • Saturday - 9am to 5pm 
  • Sunday - Closed

 

Public holidays

All libraries are closed on the following days:

  • Bank Holidays
  • Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day
  • Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Facilities and Services available

 

  • WiFi
  • Computers 
  • Printing 
  • Photocopying 
  • Bookstart packs
  • Battery recycling
  • Small electrical recycling
  • Castle Point Borough Council recycling bags (check with library for information) 
  • Study space
  • Everyone's Literacy Area

 

What's On

Regular Groups and Activities

Thursday

  • Knitter Knatter, every seven weeks from 15 January 2026, 10am to 12noon

Saturday

  • Chess Club for Kids, Saturdays monthly (please check with the library), 9.30am to 11am

Book a Room

 


Photo

 

the outside view of Great Tarpots Library 

Map

 

Disabled access to the library