East of England
Essex
Borough of Basildon

Basildon

Basildon is a town in , . While not usually high on any list of places-to-go for people other than Depeche Mode fans, Basildon does have a few things to keep you occupied if you end up there.
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  • Type: Town with 107,000 residents
  • Description: town in Essex, England
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basildon University Hospital and Basildon railway station.

Hospital
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an acute general hospital in Basildon, Essex. It is managed by the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

Railway station
Photo: Julieanne Savage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Basildon is a railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Basildon, Essex. It is 24 miles 26 chains down the main line from and is situated between to the west and to the east.

Library
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laindon and Crays Hill.

Suburb
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburban town forming the western part of Basildon in , England. was historically a separate village and parish. In 1949 the village was included in the designated area for the new town of Basildon, since when the area has been extensively developed and it now forms part of the built up area of Basildon.

Village
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is a village in the Basildon borough of , England, twinned with the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire. The passes under Church Lane. is situated 2½ miles north of Basildon.

Locality
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is a plot of land situated on Oak Lane in , , United Kingdom. Until October 2011, it was the site of one of the largest Traveller concentrations in the UK, at its height housing over 1,000 people, along with the adjacent Oak Lane site.

Basildon

Latitude
51.5702° or 51° 34′ 13″ north
Longitude
0.4584° or 0° 27′ 30″ east
Population
107,000
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BAS
Open location code
9F32HFC5+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26316958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656194
Wiki­data ID
Q216649
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Basildon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Basildon”
  • Aragonese: “Basildon”
  • Asturian: “Basildon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bazildon”
  • Basque: “Basildon”
  • Belarusian: “Базілдан”
  • Belarusian: “Бэзылдан”
  • Bengali: “বাসিলডন”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাসিলডোন”
  • Bulgarian: “Базилдън”
  • Catalan: “Basildon”
  • Cebuano: “Basildon”
  • Chinese: “巴西尔登”
  • Chinese: “巴西爾登”
  • Czech: “Basildon”
  • Danish: “Basildon”
  • Dutch: “Basildon”
  • Esperanto: “Basildon”
  • Esperanto: “Bazildono”
  • Finnish: “Basildon”
  • French: “Basildon”
  • German: “Basildon”
  • Gujarati: “બેસિલડન”
  • Hebrew: “באזילדון”
  • Icelandic: “Basildon”
  • Irish: “Basildon”
  • Italian: “Basildon”
  • Japanese: “バシルドン”
  • Japanese: “バジルドン”
  • Kannada: “ಬಸಿಲ್ಡನ್”
  • Korean: “바실던”
  • Korean: “바실돈”
  • Korean: “배질던”
  • Korean: “베이즐던”
  • Ladin: “Basildon”
  • Latin: “Berlesduna”
  • Latvian: “Bezildona”
  • Lithuanian: “Basildon”
  • Lithuanian: “Bazildonas”
  • Macedonian: “Базилдон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Basildon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basildon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basildon”
  • Norwegian: “Basildon”
  • Persian: “بزیلدون”
  • Piemontese: “Basildon”
  • Polish: “Basildon”
  • Portuguese: “Basildon”
  • Romanian: “Basildon”
  • Russian: “Базилдон”
  • Russian: “Басилдон”
  • Russian: “Бэзилдон”
  • Serbian: “Basildon”
  • Serbian: “Bazildon”
  • Serbian: “Базилдон”
  • Serbian: “Бејзилдон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Basildon”
  • Slovak: “Basildon”
  • Slovenian: “Basildon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بزیلدون”
  • Spanish: “Basildon”
  • Swedish: “Basildon”
  • Tamil: “பசில்டன்”
  • Tamil: “பாசில்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Бәзилдон”
  • Telugu: “బాసిల్ డన్”
  • Telugu: “బాసిల్డన్”
  • Turkish: “Basildon”
  • Ukrainian: “Базілдон”
  • Urdu: “باسیلدون”
  • Volapük: “Basildon”
  • Welsh: “Basildon”
  • “Basildon”

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