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
Saffron Walden More than 40 maltings stood in the town by the end of the century. The trade was less lucrative than saffron, but the town continued to grow through the 19th century, and had a cattle market, corn exchange and other civic buildings. During this time Quakers became active. The influential Gibsons – one of the founding families of Barclays Bank – aided the construction of several public buildings that remain today, such as the museum and town hall. In the 1900s the Saffron Walden branch railway line from Audley End station, on the mainline from London to Cambridge, was extended