Laindon is a town and

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, which now forms part of the

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Basildon Basildon ( ) is a town in Borough of Basildon, the borough of the same name, in the county of Essex, England. It had a recorded population of 115,955 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. In 1931, the town had a population of 1,159. ...

, in the

district, in

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, England. It is between Basildon and West Horndon. It was also an ancient parish. It was based on the manor of the same name. As of 2020, Laindon's population was 37,175.

History

The ancient Laindon parish included the chapelry of

that became a civil parish in its own right in 1866. The parish included two detached pieces of coastal grazing land, one of which was on

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. It included a long finger of land north into the neighbouring parish of Great Burstead to include Laindon Common and the once larger and adjacent Frith Wood which the lord of the manor, the

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, emparked around 1260. This finger of land may have been the territory of Well Street Manor, which was mentioned in the

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. On 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Billericay. It incorporated 412 residents around , in 1831. Three detachments of the parish were removed in 1880 and 1889, lowering the area to . Laindon was part of the Billericay Rural District from 1894 to 1934 and had a parish council. In 1931 it had a population of 4,552. The parish became part of Billericay Urban District in 1934, which was renamed Basildon Urban District in 1955. The district known as Laindon West was never part of the parish of Laindon but part of the parish of Dunton which was itself abolished in 1934. The Five Links Estate was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s on land between the High Road and central Basildon. The housing is built in a distinctive pattern around pedestrian courtyards. Basildon Council are currently regenerating this area with the aim of reducing crime, and renaming some streets. Since 2020, Laindon Centre has undergone modernisation with 224 homes and 16 shops planned, including several flats .

Geography

It is north of Laindon railway station on the

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. South of the railway station and line is

Langdon Hills Langdon Hills is an area of Basildon in the borough of Basildon in Essex, England. It is located south of Laindon railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend line. It is the location of the Langdon Hills Country Park, which is in th ...

. Laindon and Langdon Hills are part of the

post town. To the south-west of Laindon, the Dunton Plotlands was an area of small plots of land used as weekend cottages or smallholdings during the mid-20th century.

Notable people

* Josh Dubovie (born 1990), singer * John Georgiadis (1939–2021), violinist and conductor * Edgar Longstaffe (1852–1933), landscape painter * Joan Sims (1930–2001), comedy actress

References

External links

Laindon and District Community Archive
{{Authority control Populated places in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Basildon (town)