Laindon

infobox UK place

country = England
official_name= Laindon
latitude= 51.574
longitude= 0.4181

os_grid_reference= TQ676888
population =
shire_district= Basildon
shire_county = Essex
region= East of England
constituency_westminster= Billericay
post_town= BASILDON
postcode_district=SS15
postcode_area=SS
dial_code= 01268

Laindon is a town located in the west of the Basildon district of Essex, England.

It is located north of Laindon railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. South of the railway station and line is Langdon Hills. Laindon and Langdon Hills are part of the Basildon post town. [Royal Mail, "Address Management Guide", (2004)]

Until its abolition in 1937, there was a Laindon parish. In 1931 it covered an area of 2,049 acres and had a population of 4,552. 100 years earlier, in 1831, the population was 412 and the area covered was 4,680 acres. [ [http://vision.edina.ac.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10243427&c_id=10001043 Vision of Britain] - Laindon parish ( [http://vision.edina.ac.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10243427&c_id=10001043 historic map] )] Three detachments of the parish were removed in 1880 and 1889.

To the south-west of Laindon, the Dunton Plotlands was an area of small plots of land used as weekend cottages or smallholdings during the mid twentieth century.

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