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Basildon District
Shown within Essex
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Essex
Area: - Total	Ranked 234th 110.02 km�
Admin. HQ:	Basildon
ONS code:	22UB
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 90th 166,397 1,512 / km�
Ethnicity:	96.9% White 1.0% S.Asian
Politics
Basildon District Council http://www.basildon.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Angela Smith, John Baron

The Basildon district is a local govenment district in Essex, England.

It contains the towns of:

Basildon (the administrative headquarters)
Billericay
Bowers Gifford
Crays Hill
Great Burstead
Laindon
Langdon Hills
Little Burstead
North Benfleet
Pitsea
Vange
Wickford

Railway stations within the district:

Basildon railway station
Billericay railway station
Laindon railway station
Pitsea railway station
Wickford railway station

Districts of England - East of England
Babergh \| Basildon \| Bedford \| Braintree \| Breckland \| Brentwood \| Broadland \| Broxbourne \| Cambridge \| Castle Point \| Chelmsford \| Colchester \| Dacorum \| East Cambridgeshire \| East Hertfordshire \| Epping Forest \| Fenland \| Forest Heath \| Great Yarmouth \| Harlow \| Hertsmere \| Huntingdonshire \| Ipswich \| King's Lynn and West Norfolk \| Luton \| Maldon \| Mid Bedfordshire \| Mid Suffolk \| North Hertfordshire \| North Norfolk \| Norwich \| Peterborough \| Rochford \| St Albans \| St Edmundsbury \| South Bedfordshire \| South Cambridgeshire \| Southend-on-Sea \| South Norfolk \| Stevenage \| Suffolk Coastal \| Tendring \| Three Rivers \| Thurrock \| Uttlesford \| Watford \| Waveney \| Welwyn Hatfield
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire _ Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk

Categories: Stub | Essex

Results from FactBites:

Basildon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (209 words)
	Basildon is an industrial town and district in Essex, England with a population in excess of 120,000 (Census 2001).
	Basildon was created as a new town in 1949 from the merger of several smaller towns, and expanded to accommodate overspill population from London.
	Basildon is considered to be a barometer of public opinion and has returned General Election results in line with the nation since the 1950s.

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