Molehill Green, a hamlet which is part of the parish of Takeley, bordering on Broxted, was envisaged to almost completely disappear if the proposal to build a second runway for Stansted Airport had gone ahead

Until 1974, a forbidding brick wall ran along the Ashdon Road on the north side of the Common, largely concealing an even more forbidding and austere building.

This is the intriguing story of one of the Miracles associated with Edward the Confessor, the last of the Saxon kings, and of its connection to a long-forgotten chapel in the village of Clavering in NW Essex

Lorry drivers like driving through old towns and enjoy the nuisance value they create.

John Collin, who was born in 1740 and died in 1783, was an attorney and banker from Saffron Walden.

The story of Hart’s is well known: of how Henry Hart, a carpenter’s son from Linton, was apprenticed as printer in 1814 to George Youngman in Market Hill, Saffron Walden; and of how he bought his own printing press in 1836 and set up a stationery shop.

During the years 1884-1977 Saffron Walden College for Mistresses had a distinguished history. It was early in the field of providing a course related to the multi-ethnic character of many schools

Clavering Castle, which lies next to the Parish Church, is a large moated site designated by English Heritage as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, of Saxon or medieval origin.

The National Trust in recent years has spoken out about the damage that could accompany ill-considered decisions to build on green-field sites as a result of the relaxation of current planning policies.

The piece of jewellery shown above is a 6th Century replica of a Byzantine coin and was found by a metal detectorist near Thaxted, Essex and the discovery of such an early medieval gold coin pendant “literally sheds a light” on a period of a county’s history about which little is known. It was minted in Europe and then brought

Sarah Chesham was a working-class, illiterate woman who lived at Ponds cottages in Clavering. She was charged with murder (poisoning with arsenic) and tried on four occasions,