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| Basildon Street Name Meanings |
| Paslowes* Vange | A farm in Good Easter, Essex, in the Dunmow Hundred. This farm was under the control of Robert Passelewes in 1236 and there are still folk of similar names in the village. |
| Pevensey Close Pitsea | . |
| Popes Crescent Pitsea | . |
| Rickling* Vange | Ricolax, or Ricula was the wife of Sledda (587? - c. 604), the sixth century King of Essex and she was of the Rikelinges, the people who lived where the village of Rickling stands today in the Uttlesford Hundred. |
| Riverview Pitsea | . |
| Swinborne Road* Burnt Mills Industrial Estate | Swinbournes were the old Isinglass manufacturers at Coggeshall. Isinglass is a firm, whitish substance from the air-bladders of fresh water fish used in a variety of things including: cookery, beer making and glue. |
| Tennyson Drive Pitsea | . |
| Thomasin Road* Burnt Mills Industrial Estate | Thomasins were brushmakers at Witham. |
| Tilney Turn* Vange | Tilney Turn is a field enclosed by a round sweep of the River Pant at Shalford in the Hinckford Hundred. Appropriate for the street for which it is proposed which is one continuous turn. |
| Weavers* Vange | This is the name of a field, part of Bowers Hall, Rivenhall. It probably has reference to the settlement of weavers from the Low Countries in that part of Essex, i.e. in the neighbourhood of Witham, Coggeshall and Braintree. |
| Wendene* Vange | From the old English word "wene" meaning beautiful. The winding valley in which WendensAmbe lies in the Uttlesford Hundred is thus named locally. |
Text written 2001 with revisions 2002-2007. Copyright © 2001-2007, Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. All street entry information marked with an asterisk (*) appears courtesy of the Basildon Council website, and can be seen in the Council publication entitled 'History of Basildon, Billericay & Wickford'. |
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