A town has a big parish church inside Essex, St. Mary & blessed virgin, which chiefly dates from either a 15th century. These are 183 feet (56 m) yearn & has the steeple, built around 1832, which is 193 feet (59 m) high.

Saffron Walden too features a ruins of the 12th century Walden Castle. Nearby is a Maze, the series of round excavations dig the turf of the green. These are a big turf maze in England, the independent a share existence astir Hundred feet (Xxx m) from side to side. A earliest record of it was within 1699, and it has been extensively restored many days, last around 1979.

A second holidaymaker attraction is Audley End, a manor built per Earl of Suffolk in the 17th century. At a northward edge of a town come Bridge Prevent Gardens, which date from either the 1840's and were originally laid out by Francis Gibson, a member of the locally well-known Gibson family who were eminent Quakers, bankers and brewers.

Erstwhile called Chipping Walden, its todays title go back a sixteenth century. These are the combination of the old pre-Norman manor of Waldana and a saffron crocuses which were commercially grown in the area until the 18th century. A plant was used for medicine, dye & as a spice.

Sir Thomas Smyth, a 16th century scholar and diplomat, was innate on text, when Henry Winstanley, owner of the number one Eddystone Lighthouse was born inside nearby Littlebury.