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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 ...
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.
Other formal parks include Mopsies Park in Timberlog Lane, [77] and Howards Park in Pitsea. Basildon is also home to Wat Tyler Country Park which opened in 1984; Marks Hill Nature Reserve (opened 1981); [78] Vange Hill; One Tree Hill Country Park; Langdon Hill Country Parks and the RSPB Nature Reserve at Bowers Marshes. [79]
A road on the western edge of Blackheath is called Wat Tyler Road [32] Wat Tyler Country Park in Essex is named after him. Swindon Borough Council's Offices are in Wat Tyler House. A memorial commemorating Wat Tyler and the Great Rising of 1381 was unveiled on 15 July 2015 in Smithfield, London.
A murder investigation was launched Madison Wright, 30, went missing from Basildon, Essex.
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 ...
English: West Smithfield, Memorial to Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt. On the wall outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Erected 2015 by Matthew Bell. ‘At this place on 15th June 1381, Wat Tyler, John Ball and other representatives of the Great Rising met King Richard II to finalise terms for ending the Rebellion.
Wat Tyler (1341–1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt, is reputed to have been born in Brenchley. Siegfried Sassoon. Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker. (1864-1935) was a chemist whose chief hobby was conjuring.