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38: 51: 1129: 377:…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… 613: 58: 212: 260: 397:
In 1931 it covered an area of 1,816 acres (7.35 km) 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 km).
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and the smaller but more built up part to the north that was within Basildon New Town going to
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superstore in the towns boundaries. Langdon Hills has a small area as the new district of
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On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Thurrock parish, part went to
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Until its abolition in 1936, Langdon Hills was a civil parish, part of the
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A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales
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Basildon Borough History - Langdon Hills & Dunton
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School). It has a nature reserve stretching down to
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Laindon

Langdon Hills is located in Essex
Essex
OS grid reference
TQ679875
District
Basildon
Shire county
Essex
Region
East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SS16
Dialling code
Police
Essex
Fire
Essex
Ambulance
East of England
UK Parliament
South Basildon and East Thurrock
UK
England
Essex

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