Gloucester Park
Gloucester Park in Basildon is an urban neighbourhood park, named after the Duke of Gloucester who opened the park in 1957. In the 1970s, a 6-acre artificial fishing lake was made in the park, and it has held the annual Basildon Festival since 2001, which was moved from Wat Tyler Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: park in United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Gloucester Park, Basildon”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Basildon Library and Basildon railway station.
Basildon Library
Library
Photo: Ron Galliers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Basildon Library is situated 2,300 feet south of Gloucester Park.
Basildon railway station
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 London Fenchurch Street and is situated between Laindon to the west and Pitsea to the east. Basildon railway station is situated 3,300 feet south of Gloucester Park.
Fryerns Library
Library
Photo: Paul Francis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fryerns Library is situated 1 mile east of Gloucester Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Basildon and Laindon.
Basildon
Laindon
Suburb
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Laindon is a suburban town forming the western part of Basildon in Essex, England. Laindon 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.
Dale Farm
Locality
Photo: Save Dale Farm, CC BY 2.0.
Dale Farm is a plot of land situated on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex, 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. Dale Farm is situated 1½ miles northeast of Gloucester Park.
Gloucester Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Borough of Basildon, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5768° or 51° 34′ 37″ northLongitude
0.4534° or 0° 27′ 12″ eastOpen location code
9F32HFG3+P9OpenStreetMap ID
way 8659559OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q5572071
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gloucester Park”. Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.