Points Of Interest In The Area

In The Area

Local and Surrounding Area Interests

 

Within a step of the Saffron Hotel is Bridge end Gardens – a hidden Essex jewel, and the jewel in the crown for Saffron Walden, with its rare Victorian and Dutch gardens, Poets corner, the walled garden, circular rose garden,  pavilions, statues,  wrought iron gates, and a hedge maze.

The Fry Art Gallery – often known as ‘the Gallery of the Garden’ built in 1856 to house the expanding works assembled by Francis Gibson, an eminent Quaker of Saffron Walden.

The Parish Church of St. Mary – the largest in Essex, and sits just behind the Hotel.

The Common, with has the largest turf maze in England.

The Market Square on which the Corn Exchange (now the Town Library) and the Town Hall stand, with a flourishing market on a Tuesday and Saturday.

The Anglo American Playing Fields, with its Memorial to American Airmen and the people of Saffron Walden who died in World War 2.

On the edge of Saffron Walden is Audley End House, built by the Earl of Suffolk in the seventeenth Century on the mediaeval site of Walden Abbey (now owned by English Heritage), and alongside is the mini gauge steam railway, a ride of one half miles through woodland – look out for the teddy bears!

Other close attractions are Mountfitchet Castle – a Norman Mote and bailey castle of 1066, and alongside stands the House on the Hill Toy Museum. Duxford Imperial War Museum - the European centre of aviation history. The historic University City of Cambridge, with its famous Colleges and punting along the river Cam on the ‘backs’ The Horse racing town of Newmarket with the National Stud and Horse racing museum.

Audley End Station is two miles away with regular services to London, Camridge and Stansted Airport.