1900

Langdon Hills Cricket Club founded. For many years the club had its headquarters at Crown Meadow opposite The Crown (now Harvester) public house. They can now been watched at Corringham Recreation Ground near Stanford-le-Hope.

25 September -
24 October

Elected MP.

1901

Gordon Hall in Timberlog Lane (now Clay Hill Road), Vange completed. Opened as a Free Church it became a Methodist Church on 17th January 1954 following a merger with the New Town Methodist Church. Services would later transfer to the new Trinity Methodist Church, constructed closeby in the same road, which opened on 2nd April 1960. The land on which it stands was given on condition it be named after General Gordon. Charles George Gordon, 28/01/1833 - 26/01/1885. Today it has become one of the rare number of pre new town buildings to remain in the Vange area.

1902

1903

1904

A residential Labour Farm Colony is established at Sumpners Farm, Dunton. Run by the Poplar Board of Guardians, it housed Poor Law East London men until closure in 1935. It is now the site of Dunton Caravan Park.

1905

The first piped water supply in the area was installed in the main Pitsea Vange road. Previously water was carried from wells.

1906

12 January -
8 February

Mr. R.E. Whitehead elected Liberal MP for the Essex South Eastern constituency - including Basildon. Majority 2,060.

1907

1 April

Nightingale Mission Church in High Road, Langdon Hills opened. The commemorative foundation stone was laid by Isaac Levy Esq. The building would later become the Methodist church in 1919. It was rebuilt during the 1950s and given a royal opening in 1956.

7 September

St. Mary the Virgin Mission Hall in High Road, Langdon Hills founded. A stone in the front outer wall is inscribed: To The Glory Of God This Stone was Laid By Miss G.F. Garnham On 7th September 1907. The Rector at the time was Gordon J.H. Llewellyn. The building is now known as St. Mary's Church Hall.

1908

The Cottis family establish a bakery and confectionery business at Laindon. The business, run by J.G. Cottis also included shops at Billericay and Langdon Hills and Kibcaps at Lee Chapel South. In the 1990s a street name on the new housing estate at Great Berry in Langdon Hills was named Cottis Close as a reminder of their past ties with the area.

1909

March

Pitsea School in the High Road opened. The school opened as a Board school and later became Pitsea County Infant & Junior. In September 2003 the infant school was renamed Len Wastell after the popular long serving school governor.