Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford region of Essex, England, 12 miles 19 km north of Bishop's Stortford, 18 miles 29 km south of Cambridge and 43 miles 69 km north of London. It holds a provincial appearance and a few structures from the medieval period. The 2001 ward populace of 14,313 had ascended to 15,504 by the 2011 registration. Archeological proof recommends nonstop settlement on or close to the site of Saffron Walden from in any event the Neolithic period.

It is trusted that a little Romano-British settlement and post – conceivably in the region round Abbey Lane – existed as a station of the substantially bigger settlement of Cestreforda toward the north. After the Norman intrusion of 1066, a stone church was constructed. Walden Castle, dating from around 1140, may have been based on previous fortifications. A monastery, Walden Abbey, was established under the support of Geoffrey de Mandeville, first Earl of Essex around 1136, on the site of what is presently Audley End village.

The convent was isolated from Walden by Holywell Field. After the disintegration of the religious communities, Sir Thomas Audley changed over its shelters into an abode. Later this turned into the site of Audley End House. The market was moved from adjacent Newport to Saffron Walden amid de Mandeville's residency, expanding the town's impact. This Tuesday advertise was held from 1295. The town's first sanction was conceded in around 1300, to what was referred to then as Chepyng Walden.