Celebrating everything English, the free festival held on Sunday 22 April will see a range of entertainment and activities for the whole family.

Craft stalls, farmers market, a real ale and cider festival, hog roast and food stalls, marching bands, and classic cars will all be on offer for visitors to enjoy.

And there will be plenty to enjoy for younger visitors with laser tag, sports and circus skills workshops, fairground rides, and jet simulators all on offer.

The Wat Tyler miniature railway will also be running throughout the day.

The event runs from 10am to 4pm.
Free entry and parking and free park and ride bus from Pitsea Train Station.

http://www.wattylercountrypark.org.uk/?p=892 Basildon Council are pleased to announce that the Wat Tyler Centre Café is now open daily to the public from 10am to 5.00pm.
The Café is now being run in-house and we are offering very competitive prices in a wonderful environment.

Pretty cottages on a picturesque village green make a wonderful setting for an al fresco Summer ceremony. Children will love the adventure playground and the Sculpture trail. Our team of friendly and courteous staff will always be on hand to make sure all your arrangements for your day run smoothly which means you can relax and enjoy the occasion.

Complete Wedding Package

• For 60 guests* and a Buck’s Fizz Reception held any day for just £2800
• Your ceremony conducted in the beautiful 18th century thatched barn
• Buck’s Fizz reception set against the stunning natural backdrop of the Country Park
• Your reception held in the spacious and contemporary Nobel Room with stunning floral centrepieces, premium quality chair covers and linen
• A sumptuous buffet served on fine bone china

*Extra guests can be accommodated, please enquire for further information. Please note you must make your own arrangements for the Registrar to attend.

Let’s talk
If you’d like to know more about weddings at Wat Tyler our team will be happy to help on 01268 550088 or 07506 718640. Alternatively you can send us an e-mail at weddings@basildon.gov.uk

For further details about our wedding packages including prices download our events brochure

Or download our booking form

Conferences, meetings and exhibitions 15 minutes from the M25
The Wat Tyler Centre offers state of the art facilities for business events. It’s highly accessible, just 15 minutes down the A13 from the M25 and served by frequent trains from London Fenchurch Street. The venue is fully DDA compliant throughout, and offers a flexible range of well-equipped spaces, café and catering to suit every event from meetings and training to conferences and exhibitions.
Highly competitive rates, a wide range of local accommodation and a unique 125 acre parkland setting with interactive exhibitions and ecology, heritage and art trails make the Wat Tyler Centre a great venue for your next event.

Speak to one of our team on 01268 550088

For full terms and conditions download our booking form

The Wat Tyler Centre is now open to the public, offering a fantastic new facility for learning, celebration and relaxation at the heart of Wat Tyler Country Park.
The building is home to an exciting interactive exhibition that lets you explore the explosives factory heritage of the park and its future as a space for nature at the heart of developments in the Thames Gateway region. State of the art classrooms are available for school visits in the Diamond Suite which offers a great all-weather base for education visits exploring the park.

The new Café at Wat Tyler on the first floor offers great food with great views over the nature reserve at Pitseahall Fleet, especially from the deck of the balcony.
The Nobel Room is a fantastic venue for weddings, conferences, exhibitions and concerts with capacity for 250 theatre-style and 140 reception-style. At just 15 minutes from the M25, trains direct to Pitsea from central London and plenty of local affordable, quality hotel rooms, the Nobel Room offers a great new venue whatever the event.

Building is now in its final phase and the Wat Tyler Centre is on schedule to open in Summer 2009.

The work will transform the iconic building at the heart of both the old explosives factory and the Sea Transport Stores into a state of the art visitor centre with an 80 seat cafe/restaurant, conference, entertainment and education facilities.

The structure and design includes features that will minimise the building’s environmental impact. A large capacity water recycling tank has been installed and will capture the run-off from the huge roof, use some to flush toilets and transfer the rest to a series of ponds and a wetland that will provide new habitat for the wealth of wildlife already to be found at Wat Tyler.

Another great feature is the passive ventilation system.  No need for expensive pumps that use electricity. The air will be drawn in through four large ‘chimneys’ that will eventually be located on each apex of the roof.

A feature that nobody will see but all visitors will benefit from is the heating system – a wood-burning boiler. The wood – fast growing willow – will be grown and harvested at the adjacent landfill site, on a large, restored section of the lower slope. Once chipped and dried, the fuel will be transported the 400 metres to the new centre and fed into the boiler.

It’s a carbon neutral cycle – in simple terms, the willow grows and locks up the atmospheric carbon dioxide in its tissues. Then we dry and burn it, releasing the CO2 back into the atmosphere to be locked up again by the continuously growing crop.

Find out more about the Wat Tyler Project

Here are all the birds listed on our sightings board for February and March 2008: