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Richard Pettit (1752-1824)-farmer, miller, and Baptist minister, a man of many talents.

Richard Pettit was born about 1752 at Home Farm in Little Sampford (4), a small village on the River Pant in the North West corner of Essex. He succeeded his father at Home Farm and also took over what was then Stanton’s Mill on the hill overlooking the river valley.

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Restoration plans revealed for ‘iconic’ windmill

Today the “iconic” Fulbourn windmill is set to be restored to full working order after a charity stepped in to fund its repairs.

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Thaxted’s John Webb Windmill to be restored

John Webb’s or Lowe’s Mill is a 221 year old Grade II* listed[1] tower mill at Thaxted, Essex, England, which was closed to the public in 2018 after eroding brickwork led to extensive internal damage.

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    A penny for your Thoughts
    At the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria, Henry Hart, printer and bookseller, began to issue his Saffron Walden Year Books, price one penny. The earliest of these in the Town Library is dated 1853
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    The Marquis d’Oisy: Aesthete, Eccentric and Enigma
    On a warm summer’s afternoon in 1917, the London to Cambridge train pulled up at Elsenham station. From out of the First Class carriage stepped the train’s only passenger: a tall, thin gentleman with an aristocratic bearing, his black greying hair rustling slightly in the breeze.
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    The Malt Stealing Case in Saffron Walden, 1833
    In 1833, Saffron Walden was gripped by scandal as a malt-thieving scam of enormous proportions unfolded. The story has already been summarised in print, and what is given here is an abbreviated transcript in chronological order of some of the major archives relating to this unprecedented and very complicated court case.
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    The Medieval Park at Little Walden
    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.
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    A Gold Coin and a Forgery: Iron Age and Roman Discoveries from a field walk in Littlebury Parish
    Within the parish of Littlebury and close by at Catmere End, flints, prehistoric pottery, Iron Age remains and artefacts of the Roman period have come to light

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Mary, Margaret, Anne and Elizabeth Barlee with their five dead sisters represented by skulls on coffins, all the daughters of Margaret Barlee, 1653, whose memorial they kneel and mourn on at Clavering, one of Essex's most interesting churches.
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Nonsuch House, which was finished in 1579, was an amazing four-storey building that once stood on Old London Bridge.

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Littlebury Green's tin tabernacle, St Peter's listed by Historic England as of special interest (Grauniad)

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