Saffron Walden Grammar School Saffron Walden Grammar School Saffron Walden Free Grammar School (or Saffron Walden Grammar School) was a school in the Essex town of Saffron Walden, which for over four hundred years educated the boys of the town and surrounding villages in a manner designed to be after the model of Eton College and Winchester. It was notable for its longevity and for some of its illustrious alumni. The earliest schools in Walden dated from 1423 under the control of the neighbouring monastery. The Grammar School was founded by Dame Joan Bradbury in 1522. Lady Joan was the wife of London’s Lord
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