RAF Debden

Debden is a small rural village in the Uttlesford district of Essex in the East of England. It is located 4 miles (6 km) from Saffron Walden and 17 miles (27 km) from Cambridge. RAF Debden is nearby and played a role in the Second World War. Since 2007 the village has shared twin status with the village of Tang Ting in rural Nepal.

Carver Barracks is a British Army base on the former site of RAF Debden, approximately 1 mile north of the village of Debden, in Essex. The nearest town is Saffron Walden. It is set to close in 2031.

Debden Windmill is a grade II listed Tower mill at Debden, Essex, England which has been converted to residential use.

There was another Debden Hall in Essex, in Epping ForestDebden Hall was a country house in the north-west of the county of Essex, in England. It was demolished in 1936. Debden, Uttlesford is a village, parish and manor south of Saffron Walden. It was purchased by Richard Chiswell around 1700. He died in 1751, having built up the estate. In 1795 Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell had Henry Holland remodel the existing hall. Through his daughter's marriage to Sir Francis Vincent, 8th Baronet, the hall passed in the family line to Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet. On his death in 1880, Debden Hall passed to his daughter, Blanche Cely-Trevilian.Blanche Cely-Trevilian sold the Hall (1882), to William Fuller-Maitland; he disposed of it to John Ashton Fielden. It came to Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, and on his death (1914) passed to his daughter Margaret Smith, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal. For reasons of cost the Hall was not maintained, leading to its demolition, and the breakup of the estate.

Rook End is a hamlet near the village of Widdington, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. Rook End contains three listed buildings, including Rook End Cottage and two small 18th-century timber-framed and plastered cottages.

Sewards End is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. Its area is 1211 acres. It is set in the rolling countryside of north west Essex. The village's village hall is two miles east of the centre of Saffron Walden and one and a third miles from Tesco's store. The population was 511 in 2011 with 124 children under the age of 18 and 87 people aged over 64. The median age was 47. There are about 210 houses in the village (2020). There are 23 listed buildings. The village became a civil parish on 1 April 2004.

Debden Water SSSI is a 20.9-hectare (52-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which comprises two stretches of Debden Water, a small tributary of the River Cam, and surrounding land. The site is on the eastern outskirts of Newport in Essex, where the stream joins the Cam.The flood plain of the stream has tall fen vegetation, mainly common reed, while in some areas plants such as tussock sedge and lesser pond-sedge are locally dominant. Other habitats are neutral grassland, broad-leaved woodland and species-rich calcareous grassland. Locally rare plants are yellow figwort and woolly thistle. The site has a badger sett.There are public footpaths both north and south of the stream.

Acrow Halt was a railway station on the Saffron Walden Railway. Located at the north-eastern edge of Saffron Walden, Essex, the station was close to the Coronation Works of Acrow Engineering Ltd., which it served between 1957 and 1964. The station was approximately 44 miles 27 chains (71.35 km) from London Liverpool Street station.

Friends' School (known as Walden School from 2016–17) was a Quaker independent school located in Saffron Walden, Essex, situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge, England. The school was co-educational and accommodated children between the ages of three and 18 (boarders and day pupils). The school closed at the end of the 2017 summer term.

Saffron Walden Free Grammar School (or Saffron Walden Grammar School) was a school in the Essex town of Saffron Walden, which for over four hundred years educated the boys of the town and surrounding villages in a manner designed to be after the model of Eton College and Winchester. It was notable for its longevity and for some of its illustrious alumni.

Saffron Walden railway station served the town of Saffron Walden, Essex, between 1865 and 1964. The station was 43 miles 43 chains (70.07 km) from London Liverpool Street, on the Saffron Walden Railway between Audley End and Bartlow.

Debden Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Debden, in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England and 2 miles (3 km) west from the town of Thaxted. It is centred around a crossroads on the main Debden to Thaxted road where the road from Henham and Hamperden End intersects at a point known as Debden Cross. A byway or green lane, called Pepples Lane, connects Debden Cross with Wimbish, 3 miles (5 km) to the north. The source of the River Chelmer rises to the west of Debden Green in Rowney Wood. Until the 1980s, Debden Green had its own post office and grocery store. There are 12 Grade II listed buildings in the hamlet. A windmill once stood in Monks Lane. The post mill was built around 1719, possibly to replace an earlier mill, and was demolished during the First World War or immediately afterwards.Debden Green used to have a slaughter house (now Pages Farm). The single track road (signposted as Sibbards & Pages Farm Lane) connecting Pepples Lane with Debden Cross was known locally as Slaughterhouse Lane.