Stretching 70 miles, from Saffron Walden to Southend, the Saffron Trail is split into seven stages. What we now call Saffron Walden, where the Saffron Trail starts, was originally just “Weala-denu” (“Valley of the Britons”) in Saxon times. When the Normans arrived it became Walden and later began to grow the saffron crocus. By the…
