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It is located in Museum Street within the town of Saffron Walden, set in an enclosed grass meadow near the ruins of the 12-century Walden Castle. The museum's collections cover ancient cultures, archaeology, ceramics and glass, costumes and textiles, geology, furniture and woodwork, social and local history, natural history, and world cultures. [3]
Saffron Walden Museum, with a glacial erratic and stone coffins displayed in the grounds. Saffron Walden Museum, which was established in 1835 by Saffron Walden Natural History Society, is close to the town's castle. The museum had many benefactors from local families, including the Gibsons, Frys and Tukes.
The Fry Art Gallery is an art gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex. Recognised as an Accredited Museum by Arts Council England, [1] it displays work by artists of national significance who lived or worked in North West Essex during the twentieth century and after. [2]
Saffron Building Society; St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden; Saffron Walden (UK Parliament constituency) 1901 Saffron Walden by-election; Saffron Walden Museum; Saffron Walden Railway; Saffron Walden Town Hall
St. Mary the Virgin Church, Saffron Walden: Saffron Walden: Largest parish church in Essex. It dates mainly from the end of the 15th century, when an old smaller church was extensively rebuilt in flint. Thaxted Guildhall: Thaxted: Town hall dating from around 1450, and the centrepiece of the historic centre of Thaxted. Walden Castle: Saffron Walden
Barclays Bank, Saffron Walden. The Gibson family of Saffron Walden owned a brewery, an extensive chain of public houses, a bank and a number of substantial residential properties in the town. [2] As a botanist, Gibson discovered various plants, was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1847, and published Flora of Essex. [5]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
To the 'Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society' he sent a list of potters' names upon Samian ware (i. 141–8), and notes on Roman Essex (i. 191–200). On the death of John Disney in 1857 he was elected president of the society. In March 1858 he succeeded as fourth Baron Braybrooke.