Welcome to Visit Basildon Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Basildon
Visit Basildon places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Basildon places to visit. A unique way to experience Basildon’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Basildon as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Basildon Walkfo Preview Basildon is one of the most densely populated areas in the county of Essex. It was created as a new town after World War II in 1948 to accommodate the London population overspill from the conglomeration of four small villages. The town is 26 miles east of Central London, 11 miles south of Chelmsford and 10 miles west of Southend-on-Sea. When you visit Basildon, Walkfo brings Basildon places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Basildon Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Basildon
Visit Basildon – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 27 audio plaques & Basildon places for you to explore in the Basildon area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Basildon places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Basildon history
Basildon was one of eight ‘New Towns’ created in the South East of England after the passing of the New Towns Act. The name ‘Basildon’ may be derived from the Anglo-Saxon personal name ‘Boerthal’ and the word ‘dun’, meaning hill. A significant number of modern-day residents do commute to London.
Why visit Basildon with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Basildon places with Walkfo Basildon to hear history at Basildon’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Basildon has 27 places to visit in our interactive Basildon map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Basildon, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Basildon places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Basildon & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Basildon tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Basildon
Best Basildon places to visit
Basildon has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Basildon’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Basildon’s information audio spots:
Northlands Park, Basildon Northlands Park is a park in Basildon, Essex, England. It is located in Northlands, Essex. It was built in the 1960s.
Basildon United F.C. Basildon United Football Club are currently members of the Isthmian League North Division and play at Gardiners Close. They are currently a football club based in Basildan, Essex.
Hashtag United F.C. Hashtag United Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Pitsea, Essex. Founded in 2016 by YouTube personality Spencer Owen, the club originally played exhibition matches against professional football clubs’ staff teams, Sunday league teams and non-league teams. The games were filmed and highlights were uploaded to their YouTube channel, where they quickly gained a significant online following. The club subsequently entered the league system at the beginning of the 2018–19 season, joining the Eastern Counties League.
Catholic United F.C. Catholic United Football Club is a football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. They are currently members of the Essex Olympian League Premier Division and play at the Len Forge Centre.
Basildon Town Centre Basildon Town Centre is a planned town centre developed during the creation of the town in the 1950s. The architect Sir Basil Spence worked on its design.
Basildon University Hospital Basildon University Hospital is an acute general hospital. It is managed by the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is located in Basildan, Essex, and is on the East Coast coast of Essex.
Church of St Margaret, Bowers Gifford The Church of St Margaret, is a 14th Century grade II* listed Church near Bowers Gifford, Essex. The church is notable for being surrounded by fields and marshland, but immediately adjacent to the main C2C railway line to London.
All Saints Church, Vange All Saints Church, Vange is a redundant Anglican church in the former village of Vange, now part of the town of Basildon, Essex. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Vange Vange is a former village now subsumed within the urban area of the Basildon Borough of Essex. It does not have its own town centre or railway station. The London Road (B1464) is the main road through Vange and used to be part of the A13 until the 1970s.
Visit Basildon plaques
0 plaques hereBasildon has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Basildon plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Basildon using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Basildon plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Basildon audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Basildon allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Basildon’s 27 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Basildon freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Basildon Map App
Our visit Basildon map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Basildon & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Basildon tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Basildon centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Basildon area at LONG:0.4886, LAT:51.5761.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Basildon, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Basildon / surrounding areas
● Northlands Park, Basildon ● Basildon ● Basildon United F.C. ● Hashtag United F.C. ● Catholic United F.C. ● Bowers & Pitsea F.C. ● Pitsea ● Dale Farm ● Ramsden Crays ● North Benfleet ● Basildon Urban District ● Crays Hill ● Vange Hill ● Pitsea waste management site ● Basildon Town Centre ● Bowers Gifford ● Borough of Basildon ● Pitsea Marsh ● Gloucester Park, Basildon ● PROCAT ● Noak Bridge ● Basildon University Hospital ● Church of St Margaret, Bowers Gifford ● Wat Tyler Country Park ● All Saints Church, Vange ● Basildon Meadows ● Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet
Getting to / around Basildon – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Basildon using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Basildon places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Basildon Public Transport Stations
Basildon Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Pitsea railway station
Basildon railway station
A127 road
Major transport investments
Essex County Council had proposed that the A127 undergo significant development at a cost of £15 million. The project was funded via the Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF)
Local Basildon historians & Basildon tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Basildon? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Basildon’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Basildon place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Basildon Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Basildon destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Basildon’ web pages (for example: www.visitBasildon.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336