Wickford is about Thirty miles (50km) East of London, which may be reached via a itinerant network, or even by train (ingesting less than 45 transactions by train). Wickford lessens inside a District of Basildon along with Basildon and Billericay.

Geography

Wickford is placed at ¹. British national grid reference: TQ745937.

Mostly Wickford is flat & Decade metres above sea level. A greatest point, on the fringe of the town, is 74 metres above sea level. A River Crouch flows through a town, from the West to the East. A flow of any stream Wick flows into a Flow of any stream Crouch from either a South.

History

A town has existed since prior to 975. There exists grounds to believe that a region itself was inhabited within prehistoric, Roman and Saxon times. Wickford was referred to in the Domesday Book as both Wicfort & Wincfort[http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=wickford&place=&nation=&prev_page=1&english=Y&subjectid=1031117].

Prior to a 20th century Wickford was an agricultural village.

American relations

These are believed that a Wickford around Washington County, Rhode Island, USA is named fallowing this English town when the woman known as Elizabeth Reid married John Winthrop, a Governor of Connecticut.

These are besides claimed that John Kerry and George W Bush have a common ascendent from either a town.

Naked Britain

Wickford became a birthplace of Naturism in Britain. Within 1922 the English Gymnosophist Society was formed and experienced its zero in the town.

The Second World War

In the period of The Second World War the edge of town was hit by one of the German Doodlebugs.

inside a area of a town, in amongst the hedgerows and fields, there are numourus Pillboxes.

The flood of '58

Within 1958 Wickford town center was hit by the flood.

Things in Wickford

Wickford has there is no cinemas, theatres or nightclubs but it does stand its fair part of pubs and these are serve by conveyance to London, Basildon, Rayleigh and Southend-on-Sea for these other amusement. A Memorial Park northwards of Wickford. Runwell Hospital a mental health hospital with a locate services on the fringe of the town. ''Adrian's'' which claimed to become a big independent record store in the county.

Neighbouring villages

In the south Hanningfield Rettendon Battlesbridge Rawreth Crays Hill Ramsden Bellhouse Ramsden Heath Downham

Notable people from the area

Alvin Stardust's mother used to have & rerun the cafe just outside of Wickford railway station. Alvin, himself, worked in the building site in Wickford before he was renowned. Edmund Reade the member of the minor Essex gentry. Said to exist as the most common root of John Kerry and George W Bush.