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.

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

Photo: Simon Q, CC BY 2.0.

Basildon is a town in Essex, England. 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.

Laindon

Suburb

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Laindon is a suburban town forming the western part of Basildon, in Essex, England. It 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; Laindon now forms part of the Basildon built-up area.

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″ north

Longitude

0.4534° or 0° 27′ 12″ east

Open location code

9F32HFG3+P9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 8659559

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q5572071

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