Talk:Saffron Walden

message: The castle is ruined, but it is not its keep that remains, but the basement. In the tudor times a law was passed that commanded everyone to look after the road infront of their house. So, inevitably, they used earth from the hill surrounding saffron walden castle to repair them. This then shrunk the hill, leaving the basement to remain.
--Nukethewales 21:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Aloha,
Is there any information about the areas military role during the 1800s?  Thanks.  Gecko G 20:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Napoleonic Era Military bases? 

message: Is this entry entirely acceptable? Can a free, delivered newpaper be said to be very popular? If this was measured with a comparison to the Reporter and other area newpapers perhaps this would be more credible? Also listing every place it is delivered to is not that interesting, perhaps giving a distance from Saffron Walden, or jsut some examples. 
Due to it's rather singular nature I would suggest this was written by Walden Local staff....?
--GeologyTom 16:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walden Local - Newspapers 

message: The lead-in to this section appears to missing something.  As it reads, the reader can't be sure which site is being addressed.SBmeier (talk) 20:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sites and buildings of interest 

message: I have made substantial changes to this page and believe it still needs further expansion and help from other editors. I began by trying to fix some of the citation issues – certainly not perfect but improved now with further work needed. Banner has come off the top and citation needed flags are now placed on unsourced sections/sentences.  I have also reordered and expanded. Major changes are:
* Beginning a new section Culture – now housing Audley End, Fry Art Gallery and with addition of Saffron Walden Museum and Saffron Hall. Sport now comes under this as a subhead and has also been expanded and better sourced.
* Revising and dividing the history – previously poorly sourced with a non existent link to Saffron Walden Museum but would benefit from a historian's eye and better sourcing.
* Adding a paragraph covering all the churches – just mentioning St Mary's was unbalanced. Note also that St Mary the Virgin was described as largest in Essex but I can't find a good source for this (church is a self source) so have flagged up as needing a citation. Pevsner says one of the largest in the Essex guide.
* Cutting down the overly long section on coat of arms and maces. Quite interesting but out of scale.
* Reducing the section on politics and changing header to Governance. Adding a subhead on Education which previously wasn't mentioned at all – could this be longer?
* Removing second image of turf maze – seems odd to have two pictures and perhaps it would be better to have a separate page on this if it's that important. Adding some other images although I think these could be improved...spacings also if anyone can help!
The page doesn't have anything on geography and climate – typical in other pages, such as Bury St Edmunds. Economy/industry is poorly described and seems to stop in the 1970s so should be improved upon. Something on recent and ongoing developments possibly also relevant if it can be managed with neutrality in mind. Libby norman (talk) 16:39, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes and additions

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