Deer parks were an established landscape feature in medieval Essex. It has been stated by Oliver Rackham that about 160 medieval parks were known to have existed within the county at different times which represents one to every 9.6 square miles.
Monumental Brasses of Essex and Suffolk
The above detail is taken from Elmdon Church and is © Saffron Walden Historical Society Introduction Early research into brasses focussed chiefly on English brasses of the medieval and early modern periods. Today, however, the field is much wider. Chronologically it extends to brasses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Speaker Martin Stuchfield Martin is the Hon. Conservation Officer of …
Number 1 Myddylton Place, Saffron Walden,the History and Architecture
Saffron Walden’s Youth Hostel stood on the corner of Myddylton Place and Bridge Street, once the main trading route and busy thoroughfare leading from London to Cambridge.
Church Porches -Book Launched
The church porches of medieval England are among the most beautiful and glorious aspects of ecclesiastical architecture; but in comparison with its stained glass, for example, they have been relatively little studied. This book, the first detailed study of them for over a century, gives new insights into this often over-looked element.