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History News Archive

The Saffron Walden Historical Journal carries a number of shorter items as ‘History News’ regarding history-related events in the locality, usually at the end of the journal, but sometimes on other pages.
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History News Archive 2023– 2024

Ashdon Windmill The featured picture above is © David Nicol Ashdon Windmill was originally constructed c. 1754-7 and remains as an important landmark on the outskirts of the village. Ashdon Windmill Trust was formed to save, acquire and restore the mill to working condition. In 2024, to keep the mill sound and fully functional, it needed repainting to ensure timbers

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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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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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History News Archive 2001 – 2003

A bronze plaque in memory of William Campling, the Saffron Walden Chief Constable murdered in 1849, has been placed in Bridge Street, near to where he was shot.

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ClerkofOxford avatar Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford ·
23 Jun 2069463737199677641

Tonight is Midsummer Eve, which was for centuries the traditional date for celebrating the summer solstice. It was once a high point of the festival year - a time of feasts, parades, ghosts, love, roses, and bonfires blazing in the short summer night.

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ClerkofOxford avatar Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford ·
21 Jun 2068589480735338940

'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'

Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/se-lengsta-dg-anglo-saxon-solstice.html

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SimoninSuffolk avatar Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk ·
9 Jun 2064242212242637176

2/2 I also recommend 'The Parish Churches of Norwich', available through all good bookshops or from Amazon at https://amzn.eu/d/03EhOSzU

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SimoninSuffolk avatar Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk ·
8 Jun 2063922056001917436

Gerard Manley Hopkins died #OTD 8 June 1889. He was 44.

'What would the world be,
Once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left,
O let them be left,
Wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.'

From his poem 'Inversnaid', on the Canongate Wall of the

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