Walden School (Saffron Walden) Walden School (Saffron Walden) Walden School (previously known as Friends' School) was a Quaker independent school located in Saffron Walden, Essex, situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge, England. The school was co-educational and accommodated children between the ages of three and 18 (boarders and day pupils). The school closed at the end of the 2017 summer term. Friends' School, Saffron Walden was founded as part of the Quakers' Clerkenwell workhouse in London in 1703, 50 years after George Fox. From September 2016 the school changed its name to Walden School. On 11 May 2017 it was
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden of the late monastery of Walden" should be Visitors of Magdalene College "in perpetuum". The power to appoint the Master of the College was vested in the Visitor until an amendment to the College Statutes in 2012. The arms of Magdalene are derived from his. A "Booke of Orders for the Warre both by Sea and Land" (Harleian MS. 297, 144) is attributed to his authorship. Lord Audley married twice: He resigned the great seal on 21 April 1544, and died on 30 April and was buried at Saffron Walden, where he had prepared for himself a splendid tomb. As