Hill House, Saffron Walden listed in 1972 and is now divided into 17 flats. Hill House, Saffron Walden Hill House is a 19th-century building at 75 High Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, England. It is listed Grade II. In 1845, George Stacey Gibson (1818–1883) and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Tuke, bought Hill House and lived there until their death. Gibson was a British banker, botanist and philanthropist. Their only child, Mary Wyatt Gibson (1855–1934) lived at Hill House until her death. After her death, most of the grounds of Hill House were developed for housing, and the family name lives on in
Saffron (color) Saffron (color) Saffron is an orange color, resembling the color of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived. The first recorded use of "saffron" as a color name in English was in 1200. It is considered as the most important colour in Hinduism, in which it is known as Bhagwa. The color has some significance in Buddhism; it is worn by the monks of the Theravada tradition. It is also an important symbolic color in India, where it was chosen in 1947 as one of the three colors of the Indian flag after