Dunton Plotlands

[2] The 'plotlands' consisted of small plots of land sold in the first half of the 20th century to people who built weekend cottages, holiday bungalows or smallholdings there.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, many weekenders moved out to their plots on a permanent basis, to escape the worst effects of the Blitz.

After the Second World War, the new town of Basildon was created, encompassing the plotlands here and in the surrounding areas of Laindon and Pitsea.

The Langdon Visitor Centre[4][5] and the Haven Plotlands Museum, housed in a converted bungalow,[6] exhibit the natural and social history of the area.

The Plotlands is still a wooded area where a small number of cottages, and some of the original grid of grass tracks remain.