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Saffron Walden
BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Started conversation Feb 5, 2006
Wonders whether this (definitive) Entry should also mention Saffron Walden 
? Famous in 16th Century for saffron-growing (worth £250,000/ton, if I heard it correctly) Used originally as a dye. Elizabethan saffron cakes. Audley End 17th C mansion.
Featured on BBC1 Countryfile this morning.
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