Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Saffron Walden. You may be able to find further references to Saffron Walden in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
SAFFRON-WALDEN	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Saffron Walden (or Northern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew
Walden, Saffron		Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Saffron Walden.

Place	Type of entry	Source
SEWERS-END	a hamlet	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Saffron Walden within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Audley End	0	2
Little Chesterford	0	2
Ashdon	0	2
Littlebury	1	2
Wimbish	0	2
Wendens Ambo	0	2
Great Chesterford	1	3
Hadstock	0	2
Newport	3	2
Strethall	0	3
Radwinter	1	2
Debden	0	2
Widdington	0	2
Bartlow	1	2
Wicken Bonhunt	0	2
Ickleton	0	2
Castle Camps	1	2
Chilford	0	2
Linton	2	2
Elmdon	0	2