This booklet is attractively presented with a subtitle designed to lure the reader in by referring to a medieval route of paths and a river cutting through the ‘Heart of Essex’

This book is about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland.

This book has been referred to as a minor classic. It covers the early part of the author’s life, in the village of Ashdon.

The Hunger Marches took place in Britain between 1922 and 1936 against a background of severe unemployment

Samuel Pepys began his diary at the age of 27 years on 1st January 1660. At Audley End, Pepys somewhat seditiously drank the health of Charles II who was not to return from exile for another four months.

The recent death of the 10th Lord Braybrooke, and subsequent national and local press stories around the title only going to a male heir.

A front page report in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of 20 November 1959 declared: £65,000 FOR ELDERLY FOLK’S HOME

On 17th June 2026 for their annual summer outing, a group from the Society took a dive into Royston Cave,

Everyone and no-one knew David Campbell. Everyone from Rab Butler and Stanley Wilson to the little boy playing an angel in the Nativity play

I was born in Walthamstow, in April 1940 during the WW2 Blitz. As a family we were sent to live in Saffron Walden,

The few dog-eared carbon copies that provided my introduction to the Saffron Walden Survey failed to reveal the unusual story behind its compilation.