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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: c.1915 Copyright: N/A Scan ©Brian Baylis Source: Brian Baylis Comments: An early postcard view showing the former school. A property known as The Climax can also be seen on the corner of Dry Street. |
Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 15/12/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Crown Hill, Langdon Hills Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 19/12/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Crown Hill, Langdon Hills Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 19/12/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Crown Hill, Langdon Hills Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: c.1930s Copyright: Comments: A much earlier view of Crown Hill looking towards the post office. |
Location: Crown Hill, Langdon Hills Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: c.1930s Copyright: Comments: The old thatched roof post office, Langdon Hills. Demolished in the 1960s to make way for a dual carriageway. |
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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: c.1920s Copyright: N/A Comments: High Road, Langdon Hills. Grove Avenue can just be seen on the right. |
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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Brian Baylis Year of photo: 1975 Copyright: Brian Baylis Source: Brian Baylis Comments: High Road looking towards the junction with Berry Lane. Bebington's estate agents, though empty and vandalised is still standing. |
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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Brian Baylis Year of photo: 1975 Source: Brian Baylis Copyright: Brian Baylis Comments: The new Langdon Hills 'Development Corporation' housing estate. |
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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: c.1930s Copyright: Comments: Vowler Road can be seen on the left. This area was also known as Nightingale Parade. |
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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 17/06/2005 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: Taken soon after the Langdon Hills sign had been erected. |
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Location: High Road, Langdon Hills Photographer: Brian Baylis Year of photo: 1975 Copyright: Brian Baylis Source: Brian Baylis Comments: High Road seen in 1975. The new Langdon Hills housing estate had just been built at the station end. A roundabout can now be seen at the foot of the hill. |
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The High Road begins in Langdon Hills at the summit of
Crown Hill, 384 feet above sea level. As you enter the Basildon District from a southernly direction, the road is flat, having just completed a steep ascent up South Hill from the direction
There are many prominent features at the summit, and these include a church, former school, public house, water tower and a communications tower. The commanding views of the Thames Valley, as seen from Westley Heights and Coombe Wood, are some of the finest in Essex. As the road passes the public house it begins the first descent to a point just beyond the original junction with Lee Chapel Lane (now closed off). To the right of this descent, and adjacent to the pub, once stood a familiar red 'K type' telephone kiosk. This was later moved to the end of Lee Chapel Lane. A former feature of the hill here - now long demolished - was a thatched Post Office which stood on the right about half way up the final ascent. Redevelopment of the road here in the early 1960s resulted in the hill being reduced from a 1 in 7 gradient and the creation of a duel carriageway to the summit. Around the same time Staneway was constructed linking the High Road with Laindon Link. In its creation Staneway dissected Victoria Avenue and Woodgrange Avenue, before curving to join the High Road, with the main Laindon direction section of the High Road reduced to a turn off. The road levels out here briefly, before another small descent, where it again gently slopes beyond Grove Avenue for the final descent, finishing at a point in line with the former Langdon Hills primary school. The distance covered to this point is about 1 mile. In the late 1970s this part of the High Road was bypassed with a new road, the High Road then being closed off at a point adjacent with the newly built Triangle Shopping Centre, with vehicular access now from the bypass or via Berry Lane.
Shops on the opposite side to the new estate were also demolished, and Peperell's newsagents was briefly resited in a temporary building between Emanuel and Vowler Road while the Triangle shops were being constructed.
The final section leading to the Laindon Station now has a roundabout before a small incline takes the road over the railway and into Laindon. For many years the High Road was part of route B1007, which began at the old A13 close to Stanford-le-Hope, running through Horndon-on-the-Hill before reaching Langdon Hills. The route continued through Laindon High Road, crossing the Fortune-of-War roundabout and joining up with Noak Hill Road at the junction with the old Fortune-of-War public house. Some years ago Staneway (originally B1036) was given this designation, and the route is lost to the A176 before once again becoming the B1007 beyond Billericay and through to Chelmsford. Text written 2002 with revisions 2002-2007. Copyright © 2002-2007, Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. | ||||||
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