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November 2, 2024 • posted in Recommended Reading

The Flying Serpent: or Strange News Out of Essex

In Janaury 1669 the writer and historian William Winstanley published a pamphlet entitled The Flying Serpent or Strange News out of Essex. It describes in graphic detail the appearance of a fearsome dragon or winged serpent at Henham, near Saffron Walden
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November 2, 2024 • posted in Articles

Compton Census in NW Essex

In January 1675/6 Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, directed that a census be made of the number of inhabitants papist recusants and dissenters in each parish
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November 2, 2024 • posted in Articles

Camden’s Britannia

Among the treasures of Saffron Walden Town Library are various editions of the first-ever topographical survey of the whole country, by William Camden
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November 2, 2024 • posted in Journal

Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 48 Autumn 2024

Read about the lives of people who shaped our local story. The latest edition of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal (No 48 – Autumn 2024) is now on sale (£5) at the Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, Harts bookshop, the Town Museum and the Saffron Walden Historical Society. Articles in this issue include: Ashdon Village Museum: a tale of dedication
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October 31, 2024 • posted in News

Archaeology at Pleshey

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
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October 22, 2024 • posted in Articles

Essex Record Office Archive Access Point in Saffron Walden

The Essex Record Office Archive Access Point in Saffron Walden was opened in January 1996 in response to prolonged lobbying from local organisations, historical groups and individual historians
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October 22, 2024 • posted in News

Henry Winstanley biography – book published

A major 450pp biography of Winstanley, one of Walden’s greatest sons. With 50 illustrations and a full illustrated catalogue raisonné of his etchings.
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October 13, 2024 • posted in History News

History News Archive 2006 – 2007

Saffron Walden Town Council agreed to discuss the possibility of commemorating the fact that the Parliamentary Army was stationed in Saffron Walden in 1647
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October 13, 2024 • posted in History News

History News Archive 2004- 2005

This rare arrow- head from the Middle Bronze Age (1275- 1140 BC) has been donate to Saffron Walden Museum, after being found by a metal detectorist in north-west Essex
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