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The facilities include a cafe, walking, picnicking, fishing lakes, flower gardens, a children's playground, a skatepark and a multi-use sports area. [1] Basildon Parkrun takes place every Saturday morning at 9am, the course is three laps of the park taking in the lakes. [3] The park covers an area of around seventy acres. [2]
Basildon Park, the West façade—the corps de logis and north and south flanking pavilions. Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building.
On his return to England, Sykes purchased Ackworth Park in Yorkshire and Basildon Park in Berkshire. He was for many years the Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury, and then for Wallingford. He acquired a baronetcy in 1781. [2] Sir Francis lived in Basildon, although he died in 1804, before his
Basildon was one of England's first post WW2 new towns: it was officially named a new town in 1949, under the New Towns Act, with the first house constructed in 1951. [3] A large illuminated sign stood next to the railway line stating "This is the site of Basildon Town Centre" from 1956, with the first shops in Basildon Town Centre opening to the public in 1958. [4]
Festival Leisure Park is a trading leisure park located in the north of Basildon and owned by Aviva. [52] The Festival Leisure Park, includes 15 restaurants, a bowling and arcade centre, a family and entertainment centre with play frame and dodgem car track, two hotels, a bar, a sixteen screen Cineworld cinema, two health clubs and a nightclub ...
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Sir Francis William Sykes, 2nd Baronet (12 November 1767 – 7 March 1804) [1] [2] was an English baronet and politician.. He was elected at a by-election in 1794 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallingford, in the interest of his father Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet, of Basildon Park.