Little Walden is a small settlement in the

Uttlesford Uttlesford is a local government district in Essex, England. Its council is based in the market town of Saffron Walden. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was 79,443. Other notable settlements include Great Dunmow, Elmdon, Stebbi ...

district, in the English county of

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. It lies about north of the

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Saffron Walden Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15, ...

and is from

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. The church, St.John's is a "remnant of Victorian concern for the spiritual welfare of the very poor labourers who lived here then". The Crown Inn

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is situated on a bend in the

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which runs through the village. Chesterford Research Park is to the north west.

History

In Little Walden parish are the remains of a banked enclosure which may date from the

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. A World War II airfield to the north,

RAF Little Walden Royal Air Force Little Walden or more simply RAF Little Walden is a former Royal Air Force station primarily used by the United States Army Air Forces located north of Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The following units were here at some point: ...

, closed in 1958.

Transport

A bus service between

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and Saffron Walden calls at Little Walden (Tuesdays only). The nearest railway station is

Great Chesterford Great Chesterford is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is north from Bishop's Stortford, south from Cambridge and about northwest from the city and Essex county town of Chelmsford. The Ickn ...

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