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Langdon Hills is a township located in the Basildon district of Essex, England. It is contiguous with the Basildon continuous urban area. It is located south of Laindon railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. It is the location of the Langdon Hills Country Park, which is in the unitary authority of Thurrock.〔(Thurrock BC ) - Langdon Hills Country Park〕 In 1767, Arthur Young commented on the view from Langdon Hills :"''…near Horndon, on the summit of a vast hill, one of the most astonishing prospects to be beheld, breaks almost at once upon one of the dark lanes. Such a prodigious valley, everywhere painted with the finest verdure, and intersected with numberless hedges and woods, appears beneath you, that it is past description; the Thames winding thro’ it, full of ships and bounded by the hills of Kent. Nothing can exceed it…''"〔Arthur Young, ''A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales''〕 North of the railway station and line, in Basildon district, is Laindon. Laindon and Langdon Hills are part of the Basildon post town.〔Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)〕 Until its abolition in 1936, Langdon Hills was a civil parish, part of the Orsett Poor Law Union.〔(Vision of Britain )〕 In 1936, it became part of the Thurrock Urban District. The area covered by the traditional parish of Langdon Hills is in the Unitary Authority of Thurrock. In 1931 it covered an area of and had a population of 2,103. 100 years earlier, in 1831, the population was 224 and the area covered was .〔(Vision of Britain ) - Langdon Hills parish ((historic map ))〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Langdon Hills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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