Basildon
Basildon is a civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. It comprises the small villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon, named for their respective heights above the River Thames.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,770 residents
- Description: civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Basildon (Berkshire)”, “Basildon (civil parish), Berkshire”, and “Basildon, Berkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beale Wildlife Park and St Bartholomew’s Church.
Beale Wildlife Park
Zoo
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beale Wildlife Park is situated by the River Thames, between the villages of Pangbourne and Lower Basildon in Berkshire, England. It has three main areas of attraction: collections of small exotic animals, farm animals and birds; landscaped gardens and woodlands; and children's play areas.
St Bartholomew’s Church
Church
Photo: MalcolmGould, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Bartholomew's Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of Lower Basildon in the county of Berkshire, England. Built in the late 13th century, the structure was substantially renovated in 1875–1876.
Hartslock
Nature reserve
Hartslock, also known as Hartslock Woods, is a 41.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in a wooded area on the north bank of the River Thames to the south-east of Goring-on-Thames in the English county of Oxfordshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Goring and Streatley and Pangbourne.
Goring and Streatley
Photo: Mariegriffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Goring and Streatley are twin villages in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the boundary of Berkshire and Oxfordshire respectively, in England.
Pangbourne
Village
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reading is a large, historic town in Berkshire in the South East of England. It is one of the largest towns without city status in the United Kingdom with just under 235,000 inhabitants. Pangbourne is situated 2 miles east of Basildon.
Streatley
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Streatley is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in Berkshire, England. The village faces Goring-on-Thames. The two places share in their shops, services, leisure, sports and much of their transport. Streatley is situated 2 miles north of Basildon.
Basildon
- Category: civil parish
- Location: West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Basildon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بسيلدون”
- Basque: “Basildon (Berkshire)”
- Basque: “Basildon”
- Cebuano: “Basildon, Berkshire”
- Cebuano: “Basildon”
- Chinese: “Basildon”
- Dutch: “Basildon”
- French: “Basildon”
- Irish: “Basildon”
- Italian: “Basildon”
- Kurdish: “Basildon, Berkshire”
- Kurdish: “Basildon”
- Latin: “Basildon (Berceria)”
- Latin: “Basildon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Basildon (Berkshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Basildon”
- Persian: “بزلدین، بارکشر”
- Polish: “Basildon”
- Russian: “Бэзилдон”
- Swedish: “Basildon, Berkshire”
- Swedish: “Basildon”
- Turkish: “Basildon, Berkshire”
- Ukrainian: “Безілдон”
- Welsh: “Basildon, Berkshire”
- Welsh: “Basildon, Swydd Berkshire”
- Welsh: “Basildon”
- “Basildon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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