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Some Saffron Walden Buildings and their Architects

Saffron Walden’s many and remarkable old buildings include features of nearly every architectural period from Norman times until the present day.

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Causewayed Enclosures and Stone Circles

Causewayed Enclosures are rare in England, with only about 60 known to exist, most of them in the south and south-east, but at least ten of these were clustered in the Cambridge area

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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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    The Richest Man in Walden
    George Stacey Gibson was not only Saffron Walden’s greatest Victorian benefactor but he was also probably the richest citizen of the town in his lifetime.
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    We will be hearing from Douglas Kent on the latest developments at the Old Sun Inn, famous for its association with Oliver Cromwell.
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    ‘Fishmere’ and the Brickworks
    If you walked along Chestnut Avenue towards the Old Cambridge Road last winter, you’ll have had a surprise: a large lake seen through the trees to the south
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    Gold Street Fire, July 1941
    It seems ironic that the biggest fire in the town during the Second World War was not caused by enemy action, but through what was probably an electrical fault.
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    Water Wells and Handpumps of Uttlesford
    At one time, the centre of any successful settlement was a fresh, clean water supply, but now many of the historic wells, their wellheads and handpumps are no more, and there is no understood programme for their conservation.

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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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Turn to your left and look up the hill to the Quattro Fontane and you'll see Palazzo del Drago, once
home to the British Council, looking down on the crossroads. Unlike the Scots College, relocated but alive, the BC is fast becoming a sad, crumpled memory, eviscerated by boors.

Turn to your left and look up the hill to the Quattro Fontane and you'll see Palazzo del Drago, once 
 home to the British Council, looking down on the crossroads. Unlike the Scots College, relocated but alive, the BC is fast becoming a sad, crumpled memory, eviscerated by boors.
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27 May 1617: Paul V grants permission for a chapel in the #Scots College #Rome #otd

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The Saffron Walden Historical Society has announced the relaunch of its long-running Historical Journal, with a redesigned full-colour edition due to return in spring 2026.

Find out more: https://www.balh.org.uk/news-relaunch-of-the-saffron-walden-historical-journal-announced-for-2026-2026-05-10

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"What is past is prologue."

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Manicheraldry?

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Just found out that in the Middle Ages they invented coats of arms for God and Satan

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