Nore View Crescent was a circular road, which was once part of Langdon Hills, not too far from Lee Chapel Lane.
 
In that circle stood Nore View, a very impressive house built in the 1890’s.  The house only last for around 40 years as it was destroyed by fire in January 1938.  At the time the house was owned by a Mrs Chataway, whose family also owned the Castlemaine Farm. 1
 
Today ‘Nore View’ is remembered in Great Berry as a road name, off of Kilowan Close.
 
The crescent, alongside Staneway, stands in Marks Hill Wood and is now marked with a sign and is still quite obvious as a path goes around the site.  The centre is very over grown with other parts being fenced off using trees that have been cut down around the nature reserve.
 
It is thought that Nore View got its name because its position high on Langdon Hills gave it a view of the lightship near the Nore sandbank in the mouth of the Thames Estuary.
 
I have also been told that Nore View was part of a racetrack that was going to be built in the area, a long with the Laindon Hotel, before the idea was abandoned.