Langdon Hills

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Langdon Hills
Location within Essex
OS grid reference TQ679875
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BASILDON
Postcode district SS16
Dialling code 01268
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51°33′42″N0°25′17″E / 51.5618°N 0.4213°E / 51.5618; 0.4213

Langdon Hills is an area of Basildon in the borough of Basildon in Essex, England.

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It is located south of Laindon railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend line. It is the location of the 400-acre (1.6 km2) Langdon Hills Country Park, which is in the unitary authority of Thurrock. [1]

History

In 1767, Arthur Young commented on the view from Langdon Hills

"…near Horndon, on the summit of a vast hill, one of the most astonishing prospects to be beheld, breaks almost at once upon one of the dark lanes. Such a prodigious valley, everywhere painted with the finest verdure, and intersected with numberless hedges and woods, appears beneath you, that it is past description; the Thames winding thro’ it, full of ships and bounded by the hills of Kent. Nothing can exceed it…" [2]

Until its abolition in 1936, Langdon Hills was a civil parish, part of the Orsett Rural District. [3]

From the 1930s the Dunton Plotlands developed and are now commemorated by a museum. [4]

In 1931 it covered an area of 1,816 acres (7.35 km2) and had a population of 2,103. 100 years earlier, in 1831, the population was 224 and the area covered was 1,850 acres (7.5 km2). [5]

Community

On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Thurrock parish, part went to Lee Chapel, [6] it became part of the Thurrock Urban District. In 1974 the Thurrock Urban District was split with most of the Langdon Hills area going to Thurrock District and the smaller but more built up part to the north that was within Basildon New Town going to Basildon District.

The town has a church (St. Johns Church), two schools (Great Berry Primary School and Lincewood School). It has a nature reserve stretching down to Laindon. It also has a Tesco superstore in the towns boundaries. Langdon Hills has a small area as the new district of Great Berry is placed just north of Tesco. Maple tree lane is however situated inside of Basildon and is not part of any of the above.

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References

  1. ↑ Thurrock BC Archived 2 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine - Langdon Hills Country Park
  2. ↑ Arthur Young, A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales
  3. ↑ Vision of Britain
  4. ↑ Essex Live https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/dunton-plotlands-how-londoners-escaped-5501754
  5. ↑ Vision of Britain - Langdon Hills parish (historic map)
  6. ↑ "Relationships and changes Langdon Hills CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
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