11 Facts About Maldon

Maldon is a town and civil parish on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England.

Place-name Maldon is first attested in 913 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it appears as Maeldun.

Maldon's first railway link was a branch line to Witham opened in 1846.

Maldon wanted to do something special for the young patients he saw there.

Maldon wrote to every one of Essex's seaside towns to arrange an outing and the only town that was willing to help was Maldon; thus, Taxi Day has remained a tradition ever since.

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Maldon has been the setting for numerous television productions, including Lawless Heart starring Bill Nighy, and BBC1's The Murder Game where numerous Blackwater Estuary locations were used including Green's Flour Mill at the bottom of Market Hill and Steeple Marshes.

In H G Wells' The War of the Worlds ; Maldon is the town from which the narrator's brother and two female companions manage to escape across the channel.

Maldon RFC run several senior male sides and one female side as well as all youth age groups from under 7s to under 18s.

Maldon was buried in an unmarked grave in London Road Cemetery, Maldon, but in 2004 the regimental association provided a memorial and in 2005 the Essex Society for Family History provided another.

Maldon was born in Langford Grove, Maldon, inherited the title Baron Rayleigh in 1873 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904, in part for discovering the inert gas argon.

Maldon is known for playing the roles of Joe Poulter in the BBC series Bad Education and James in the Netflix black comedy series After Life.