Basildon

Basildon is a town in the same district in Essex in the East of England. It is located around 40 km north-east of London.

History

Basildon has already been mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as Behoter. Close to the resort, in the Billericay 's Norsey Woods, defeated King Richard II, the fighters of the peasant revolt of 1381 on 28 June, final. In 1620 Billericay is also gathered the Pilgrims before their departure to the New World. 1855 received the community Pitsea a railway connection, in 1888 the stations were built in Laindon and Wickford Railway. In the area of ​​today's Basildon were still alive in 1851 just 707 inhabitants in 1921, after the meantime there was also telephone connection, there were 4,489, 12,986 ten years later. In 1936 the transport links were improved by the A137 from London to Southend -on-Sea. 1946 Football and 1948 a cricket club was founded in Basildon.

1949 Basildon was awarded the status of a " New Town ", that is, it was a planned city promoted with the aim to facilitate the settlement mainly of Londoners. This New Town was created from the old community Basildon and the smaller communities Pitsea, Laindon and Vange.

1964 Ford built a tractor factory in the city. 1971 opened a branch of Marks and Spencer.

Twinning

• Gweru, Zimbabwe
• Holy House, Germany
• Meaux, France

Personalities

Born in Basildon

• Nathaniel Woodard (1811-1891) - Priest of the Church of England, founder of eleven schools
• Eamonn Martin ( b. 1958 ) - Long- distance runners, the last local winner of the London Marathon
• Stuart Bingham (born 1976 ) - professional snooker player
• Jay Howard ( born 1981 ) - Auto racing driver
• Freddy Eastwood ( b. 1983 ) - Welsh footballer Romanesque origin
• Luke Jermay (* 1985) - English magician and mentalist
• Michael Kightly (* 1986) - English football player
• James Tomkins (* 1989) - football player

Other personalities

• Vince Clarke - a founding member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure
• Andrew Fletcher - Depeche Mode keyboardist
• Martin Gore - composer, guitarist and keyboardist of Depeche Mode
• Alison Moyet - Singer
• Gemma Ray - Singer
• Ireen Sheer - pop singer