Little Walden and Saffron Walden calls at Little Walden (Tuesdays only). The nearest railway station is Great Chesterford. Little Walden Little Walden is a small settlement in the Uttlesford district, in the English county of Essex. It lies about north of the market town of Saffron Walden and is from Cambridge. The church, St.John's The Crown Inn public house is situated on a bend in the B1052 road which runs through the village. Chesterford Research Park is to the north west. In Little Walden parish are the remains of a banked enclosure which may date from the Iron Age. A World War
Trade and use of saffron flourished in European locations extending from Asia Minor, where it originated, to Saffron Walden in England, where it was naturalised. Only subsequently, when its labour-intensive cultivation became largely centred in Kashmir, did it seem sufficiently exotic to qualify as one of the most precious of spices."Saffron crocus cultivation has long centered on a broad belt of Eurasia bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the southwest to India and China in the northeast. The major producers of antiquity—Iran, Spain, India, and Greece—continue to dominate the world trade. The cultivation of saffron in the Americas was begun by members of the Schwenkfelder