A substantial part of the designated area that became
Basildon had been farmland and though much of that was lost to development or open space there
is still land being farmed at Langdon Hills and Vange. One former farm in Dunton was Southfields,
which in the 1960s was covered by the Ford Research and Engineering Centre. Bluehouse Community
Centre in Laindon stands close to where the main Bluehouse Farmhouse use to be. A large area of
Gloucester Park was once Brewitts Farm and another farm, Hunts, would disappear when Cranes Farm
Road and the Industrial Estate No. 2 (Pipps Hill) was built in the 1960s. Another farm, Fairhouse,
is remembered in the name of the local school, as was Fryerns Farm, which also gave its name to
a large housing region. Luncies Farm and Cranes Farm, though both long gone, are remembered
with a road name.
Text written 2007 with revisions 2007-2008.
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