Our Spring Journal will be available at the next talk on Wednesday 23rd April 2025-don’t miss it. See our “Events” tab at the top of this page for details of Clare Mulley’s presentation. Featured in this issue: Saffron Walden Hospitals Little Walden Church Saffron Walden Museum 1975-2025 History News plus much more besides If you can’t get to the talk

Saffron Walden Rotary recently marked its centennial with a dinner at Saffron Walden Golf Club. A congratulatory letter from the President of Rotary worldwide was read out and a framed Centennial Certificate presented to Saffron Walden President Andrew Burton.

Above Image is © Saffron Walden Historical Society Our Town was ranked number one from a shortlist of 72 locations, ranging from capital cities to the remote village of Maenclochog in Pembrokeshire. See BBC news for more detail or ITV News. Criteria the judges consider for such a title include schools, transport, broadband speeds, mobile signals, access to green spaces

ENGLISH TOURISM WEEK 14 – 23 MARCH 2025 Visit England is proud to lead English Tourism Week (14-23 March 2025) celebrating our diverse, exciting and vibrant sector, and highlighting the quality and value of the English tourism offer. Saffron Walden Town Council (SWTC) is hosting an event on Tuesday 18 March for English Tourism week. Named as The Times ‘best

In its February 2025 magazine the BALH reviewed Martin’s book, and Dr. Sean O’Dell gives an excellent synopsis of the content

Saffron Walden Historical Journal appears in the latest BALH newsletter as, in the last 25 years since they started awards, our Journal has won 8 times, which is the second most number out of all the journals reviewed.

John Webb’s or Lowe’s Mill is a 221 year old Grade II* listed[1] tower mill at Thaxted, Essex, England, which was closed to the public in 2018 after eroding brickwork led to extensive internal damage.

The church porches of medieval England are among the most beautiful and glorious aspects of ecclesiastical architecture; but in comparison with its stained glass, for example, they have been relatively little studied. This book, the first detailed study of them for over a century, gives new insights into this often over-looked element.

Successful book signing on 3rd December 2024 by Martin Rose. A recently published new biography of Henry Winstanley, the Saffron Walden engineer, engraver, lighthouse-builder and theatrical entrepreneur was launched on 3rd December 2024 at the Old Sun Inn, Church Street, Saffron Walden . As Douglas Kent (owner of the Sun Inn) said, the Winstanley family were known to have associations

Sunday 10th November saw the annual Remembrance Day Parade, which took place at the top of the High Street by the War Memorial. The Society has a number of posts and articles relating to both World War I and World War II.

To Pleshey this week at the invitation of Simon Coxall, to see the dig he’s running there in the churchyard, exploring the remains of Pleshey College. The college was founded in 1394, with the church, by Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and his wife Eleanor de Bohun, who were seated at the castle. It housed nine priests and formed

A major 450pp biography of Winstanley, one of Walden’s greatest sons. With 50 illustrations and a full illustrated catalogue raisonné of his etchings.