Saffron Walden passed through Saffron Walden in 2014. Saffron Walden has a well-established hockey club with its main pitch and clubhouse in Newport and a second pitch at Saffron Walden County High School. The club has eight men's teams, seven women's teams and a large junior section. The women play in Division 2, and the men play in Prem B. The town's skate park is an American-built facility. It opened in 2007. Saffron Walden is the name of a tune often associated with the hymn "Just as I am". It was written by Arthur Henry Brown (1830–1926) from Essex. He wrote many
Saffron Walden years Dame Bradbury paid the salary of the schoolmaster herself until the school was endowed in 1535. Friends' School, renamed Walden School, was a co-educational Quaker independent school with roots dating back to 1702. Its final building, in Mount Pleasant Road, opened in 1879. On 11 May 2017 it was announced that Walden School would close at the end of the 2016–17 school year. Its final day was 7 July 2017. Saffron Walden College, a teachers' training college for women, closed in 1977. Saffron Walden is served by Audley End railway station, which is located outside the town in the