Saffron Walden | |
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Location within Essex | |
Population | 15,504 (2011)[1] |
OS grid reference | TL541387 |
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Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | SAFFRON WALDEN |
Postcode district | CB10, CB11 |
Dialling code | 01799 |
Police | Essex |
Fire | Essex |
Ambulance | East of England |
UK Parliament |
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Saffron Walden is a town near the M11 motorway, in the Uttlesford district of Essex.
It is a market town 12 miles (19 km) north of Bishop's Stortford, 15 miles (24 km) south of Cambridge and 43 miles (69 km) north of London. It has a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period.
The population was 15,504 at the 2011 census.[1]
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Ceremonial county of Essex | ||
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Boroughs and districts | Basildon • Braintree • Brentwood • Castle Point • Chelmsford • Colchester • Epping Forest • Harlow • Maldon • Rochford • Tendring • Uttlesford | |
Towns | Abridge, Basildon, Billericay, Braintree, Brentwood, Brightlingsea, Buckhurst Hill, Burnham-on-Crouch, Canvey Island, Chalkwell, Chigwell, Chipping Ongar, Clacton-on-Sea, Coggeshall, Corringham, Dovercourt, Eastwood, Epping, Frinton-on-Sea, Grays, Great Dunmow, Hadleigh, Halstead, Harlow, Harwich, Ingatestone, Laindon, Langdon Hills, Leigh-on-Sea, Loughton, Maldon, Manningtree, Pitsea, Prittlewell, Rayleigh, Rochford, Saffron Walden, Shoeburyness, South Benfleet, Southchurch, South Woodham Ferrers, Southminster, Stanford-le-Hope, Thaxted, Thorpe Bay, Tilbury, Waltham Abbey, Walton-on-the-Naze, Westcliff-on-Sea, West Mersea, Wickford, Witham, Wivenhoe
See also: List of civil parishes in Essex | |
Rivers | Blackwater • Brain • Can • Chelmer • Ching • Cobbins Brook • Colne • Crouch • River Lee Flood Relief Channel • Prittle Brook • Roach • Roding • Stort • Stour • Stour Brook • Ter • Thames | |
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