Langdon Hills is a small town located in the Basildon District of Essex. The area has grown in recent decades from a small village around the Crown pub and St Marys Church by Westley Heights. New estates now cover a much larger area stretching towards Dunton in the West and Laindon Station to the North with a population of around 1500 inhabitants.
To the South and West Langdon Hills borders on to a pleasant area of nature reserve with green fields beyond. Much of this area was formally plot lands occupied since the agricultural depression of the 1870s by small holders who lived off the land. In the 1980s the last of them moved out to be replaced by new housing estates and woodland where some of the old streets can still be seen.
Although the hills to the South only reach about 80 meters in Altitude they can still claim to be the second highest in Essex and they command sweeping views across the Thames valley as far as the towers of Canary Wharf that stand out on a clear day.
