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Walden Castle

Ruins

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Walden Castle was a medieval castle in Essex, England, built during the Anarchy of the 12th century. Only the ruined core of the structure remains today.

Saffron Walden Museum

Museum

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Saffron Walden Museum is a local museum in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Established in 1835 by the Saffron Walden Natural History Society, with collections assembled from 1832 by local benefactors including Jabez Gibson and Lord Braybrooke of Audley End, it was built as a purpose-designed museum, making it one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom.

Great Chesterford railway station

Railway station

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Great Chesterford railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Great Chesterford in Essex, England. It is 45 miles 56 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Audley End and Whittlesford Parkway stations.

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Saffron Walden

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Saffron Walden is a market town in Essex, East Anglia. It's 15 miles south of Cambridge and 46 miles north of London so it's commuterland for both, and in 2021 had a population of 16,600.

Great Chesterford

Village

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Great Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is 3 miles north-west of Saffron Walden, its post town, 10 miles south from Cambridge and about 25 miles northwest from the city and Essex county town of Chelmsford.

Little Chesterford

Village

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Little Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, in the East of England. Close to the Cambridgeshire border, it is built principally along a single sunken lane to the east of a chalk stream tributary of the River Cam or Granta and is located 3⁄4 mile southeast of Great Chesterford and some 2+1⁄2 miles northwest of Saffron Walden.

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