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Wat Tyler Country Park is a country park located to the south of Pitsea, Essex within the area of Pitsea Marsh. [1] The area was inhabited from the Bronze Age onwards and at one time was the location of the Pitsea Explosives Factory. The park is named after Wat Tyler, the leader of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, which started in nearby Fobbing ...
English: Roundabout on Wat Tyler Road, Blackheath Common Wat Tyler Road heads right to Lewisham, or left towards the A2 Shooters Hill Road. Hare and Billet Road leads straight on towards Blackheath Vale.
The southern half is the Wat Tyler Country Park, and the northern half is private land. [1] [2] The site has a variety of habitats, such as grassland, scrub, reedbed, fen, ponds and saltmarsh. It was reclaimed in the seventeenth century, when Pitseahall Fleet was excavated to construct sea walls. The Fleet has a large and varied bird population.
Basildon is home to the Haven Plotlands Museum and was previously home to the National Motorboat Museum, which had been based at Wat Tyler Park. [72] Currently there is not a museum dedicated to the history of Basildon, though plans had previously been made to site one at Wat Tyler Park. [ 73 ]
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...
A murder investigation was launched Madison Wright, 30, went missing from Basildon, Essex.
The A249 begins close to Maidstone town centre, heading eastwards from the southbound A229 Lower Stone Street along first Mote Road and then along Wat Tyler Way.Due to Maidstone's one-way system, the westbound carriageway extends for a short way along Knightrider Street (towards the Archbishop's Palace, Maidstone) but then ends where it meets the northbound carriageway of the A229.
The first novel to feature Wat Tyler is Mrs O'Neill's The Bondman: A Story of the Days of Wat Tyler (1833). He is the protagonist in Pierce Egan the Younger 's novel Wat Tyler, or the Rebellion of 1381 (1841), a highly radical text published at the height of the second phase of the Chartist movement that argued for republican government in ...