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Vange is a southern suburb of Basildon in Essex, England. Vange was historically a separate village and parish. It was a small village until the first half of the 20th century, when it saw significant plotlands development. In 1949 the village was included in the designated area for the new town of Basildon, since when the area has seen further extensive development. It now forms part of the built up area of Basildon. It gives its name to one of the wards of the Borough of Basildon. At the 2021 census the ward had a population of 10,401.
The name Vange means "fen district".
In the Domesday Book of 1086 there were two estates or manors listed at the vill of Phenge in the Barstable Hundred of Essex.
No church or priest is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but Vange became a parish. All Saints Church appears to have been built shortly after the Norman Conquest, in the late 11th century or 12th century. It has been altered and repaired many times over the centuries since then. It is faced in ragstone and flint, with some areas of alternating brickwork and tufa. It has a small timber bell turret.
In the 1840s, Vange was described as a small village at the head of a creek with a wharf for barges. The parish at that time had a population of 169. The manor house of Vange Hall stood on the hill to the north of the village; it has since been demolished and the site forms part of Basildon Golf Club.
Nearby Pitsea railway station opened in 1855, encouraging development in the area. The main road through Vange is High Road / London Road, later numbered as the A13 until it was bypassed in the 1970s and became the B1464. High Road was developed with shops and businesses from the late 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century it was a busy shopping centre, at a time when the facilities in neighbouring Pitsea were relatively limited. The railway station was renamed "Pitsea for Vange" in 1932, but reverted to just being called Pitsea in 1952.
The area's heavy clay soil made for poor quality agricultural land. The late 19th century and early 20th century was a period of wider agricultural depression, and many farms in the area were sold for development as plotlands, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. People bought individual plots on which to build a house, but there was very little provision of infrastructure and many of the houses were of a poor quality.
When elected parish and district councils were established in 1894, Vange was included in the Billericay Rural District. The population of the parish was too small to automatically be given a parish council, and so it initially only had a parish meeting. A parish council was subsequently established the following year.
Vange
Vange is a southern suburb of Basildon in Essex, England. Vange was historically a separate village and parish. It was a small village until the first half of the 20th century, when it saw significant plotlands development. In 1949 the village was included in the designated area for the new town of Basildon, since when the area has seen further extensive development. It now forms part of the built up area of Basildon. It gives its name to one of the wards of the Borough of Basildon. At the 2021 census the ward had a population of 10,401.
The name Vange means "fen district".
In the Domesday Book of 1086 there were two estates or manors listed at the vill of Phenge in the Barstable Hundred of Essex.
No church or priest is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but Vange became a parish. All Saints Church appears to have been built shortly after the Norman Conquest, in the late 11th century or 12th century. It has been altered and repaired many times over the centuries since then. It is faced in ragstone and flint, with some areas of alternating brickwork and tufa. It has a small timber bell turret.
In the 1840s, Vange was described as a small village at the head of a creek with a wharf for barges. The parish at that time had a population of 169. The manor house of Vange Hall stood on the hill to the north of the village; it has since been demolished and the site forms part of Basildon Golf Club.
Nearby Pitsea railway station opened in 1855, encouraging development in the area. The main road through Vange is High Road / London Road, later numbered as the A13 until it was bypassed in the 1970s and became the B1464. High Road was developed with shops and businesses from the late 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century it was a busy shopping centre, at a time when the facilities in neighbouring Pitsea were relatively limited. The railway station was renamed "Pitsea for Vange" in 1932, but reverted to just being called Pitsea in 1952.
The area's heavy clay soil made for poor quality agricultural land. The late 19th century and early 20th century was a period of wider agricultural depression, and many farms in the area were sold for development as plotlands, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. People bought individual plots on which to build a house, but there was very little provision of infrastructure and many of the houses were of a poor quality.
When elected parish and district councils were established in 1894, Vange was included in the Billericay Rural District. The population of the parish was too small to automatically be given a parish council, and so it initially only had a parish meeting. A parish council was subsequently established the following year.
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