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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.
Saffron Walden Museum is a local museum in Saffron Walden, Essex, east England. [1]The museum is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom. [2] 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 River Cam runs through the village, as does the Cambridge to Liverpool Street railway, though the village has no station. Hinxton parish's southern boundaries form the border between Cambridgeshire and Essex. The village is five miles (8 km) north-west of Saffron Walden and nine miles (14 km) south of Cambridge. The 2001 population was 315. [1]
Saffron Walden Rural District was a rural district in the county of Essex, England. It was created in 1894 and later enlarged by the addition of the parishes of Berden , Birchanger , Elsenham , Farnham , Henham-on-the-Hill , Manuden , Stansted Mountfitchet and Ugley from the disbanded Stansted Rural District .
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St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Saffron Walden, Essex. It is the largest non-cathedral church in Essex with an overall length of 183 feet (56 m) and a spire 193 feet (59 m) high, which is the tallest in Essex. It was designated as a Grade I listed building in 1951. [1] [2]
Internally, the principal room was the courtroom and there was also a lock-up for petty criminals. [5] Local government in towns was reformed in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, with Saffron Walden becoming a municipal borough. [6] The town hall continued to serve as headquarters of the reformed council. [7]
Internally, the principal room was the main hall. [ 1 ] The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century, [ 8 ] and it was acquired by Saffron Waldon Borough Council in 1882. [ 9 ]