- Langdon Hills
infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Langdon Hills
latitude= 51.5618
longitude= 0.4213
os_grid_reference= TQ679875
population =
shire_district= Basildon
shire_county =Essex
region= East of England
constituency_westminster= Basildon
post_town= BASILDON
postcode_area= SS |postcode_district= SS16
dial_code= 01268Langdon Hills is a town located in the Basildon district of
Essex ,England . It is contiguous with the Basildon conitinuous urban area.It is located south of
Laindon railway station on theLondon, Tilbury and Southend Railway . It is the location of the 400 acre Langdon Hills Country Park, which is in the unitary authority ofThurrock . [ [http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/countryside/langdonhills/ Thurrock BC] - Langdon Hills Country Park] 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…" [Arthur Young, "A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales"]
North of the railway station and line, in Basildon district, is
Laindon . Laindon and Langdon Hills are part of the Basildon post town. [Royal Mail, "Address Management Guide", (2004)]Until its abolition in 1936, Langdon Hills was a civil parish. It is frequently confused with the neighbouring parish of Laindon.
In 1931 it covered an area of 1,816 acres and had a population of 2,103. 100 years earlier, in 1831, the population was 224 and the area covered was 1,850 acres. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10243543&c_id=10001043 Vision of Britain] - Langdon Hills parish ( [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10243543&c_id=10001043 historic map] )]
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