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Even though Basildon is a new town, there are still traces of its historical past visible. Old roads that once connected the villages have been incorporated into the new town: Clay Hill Road, Timberlog Lane, Rectory Road, Pound Lane, Church Road and Dry Street.
On January 4th 1949 he officially designated Basildon a 'new town'. The story and planning of this began many years earlier.
Basildon started as a small rural village, which, according to the Post Office Directory of 1869 had a population of 157, that had increased to 644 by 1929! Many weekend residences began...
Sep 17, 2016 · Basildon, Essex, was one of the largest of those New Towns. It was founded in 1949, when Lewis Silkin, the Minister of town and country planning at the time, ambitiously predicted that "Basildon...
- Ariana Zilliacus
Sep 21, 2024 · Basildon, new town, Basildon district, administrative and historic county of Essex, southeastern England. Basildon new town was established in 1949. It was one of eight established 20 to 30 miles (32 to 48 km) from central London to help alleviate the city’s acute post-World War II housing.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Basildon - A New Town In Essex (Part 1) The New Town Movement - History, Development and Future of New Towns. History. In terms of British social history, New Towns are very young, the oldest having been in existence for little more than three decades.
Aug 30, 2016 · Fifty years ago, however, Basildon—a state-built “new town”—was synonymous with the utopian dreams among planner and architects. “Are we a product of our environment… or is it a product...
