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May 2002

No 3: May 2002 The Site of the Battle of Assandun 1016  –  Patricia Croxton-Smith Miss ffytche and Clavering Church  –  Jacqueline Cooper How Saffron Walden correlates to the Demographic Transition Model between 1700 and 1850  –  James W. Bacon The Victorian Home Farm at Audley End  –  Geoffrey Ball Martin Robinson’s Notebook  –  Paul Wood The Impact of the
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November 2001

No 2: November 2001 The Compton Census in NW Essex  –  Imogen Mollet Pre-enclosure Maps of NW Essex  –  Laurie Barker Dates on Buildings and Exterior Walls in Saffron Walden  –  Neville &  Jean Price* Local Farming in a  Bygone Age: what was it like?  –  Geoffrey Ball Arthur Legge (1860-1942): Artist of Essex  –  Kenneth Neale The Misses Hart 
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No 1: May 2001 Establishments for Young Ladies: Private Boarding Schools for Females c.1791-1861 – Fiona Bengtsen The American Bittern, an Historic first for Essex  –  Nick Green Treasure at Catons Lane, Results of Metal Detector Survey, Saffron Walden  –  Tony Carter Saffron Walden Town Football Club: History of The Meadow  –  Paul Daw Crime Doesn’t Pay? A Study of
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The Saffron Walden Historical Society, founded in 1933, organises eight lectures a year and publishes a magazine, the SWHJ, twice a year. We welcome new members

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