The Cricketers Arms

“A proper traditional inn that overlooks the village green.” - AA Inspector

LOCATION

SAFFRON WALDEN, ESSEX

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Our Inspector's view

Ideally situated overlooking the cricket pitch and within easy driving distance of Stansted Airport; the property also offers a park and ride option. The bedrooms are individually decorated and have modern facilities; the public rooms include a bar, lounge and selection of dining areas, including an outside terrace and small marquee.

Awards, accolades & Welcome Schemes

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1-Rosette restaurant
The Cricketers Arms
Rickling Green, SAFFRON WALDEN, ESSEX, CB11 3YG

Features

Rooms
  • Rooms 10
  • Family bedrooms: 3
  • Bedrooms ground: 3
Children
  • Children welcome
  • High chairs
  • Children's portions or menu
Facilities
  • Satellite TV
  • Free TV
  • Open parking
Accessibility
  • Accessible bedrooms: 1
Opening times
  • Open all year
Food
  • Dinner Served

About the area

Discover Essex

Essex is full of pleasant surprises. It has the largest coastline of any county in England, with its fair share of castles, royal connections and scenic valleys. Take Colchester, for example, which was built by the Romans and is Britain’s oldest recorded town. Its castle contains the country’s largest Norman keep and yet, a stone’s throw from here, East Anglia’s newest arts centre promises to put Colchester firmly on the map as Essex’s capital of culture.

Tidal estuaries are plentiful and their mudflats offer migrating birds a winter feeding place. Essex was known as the land of the East Saxons and for centuries people from all over Europe settled here, each wave leaving its own distinctive cultural and social mark on the landscape. Walking a little off the beaten track will lead you to the rural retreats of deepest Essex, while all over the county there are ancient monuments to explore: 

  • the great Waltham Abbey
  • Greensted, thought to be the oldest wooden church in the world
  • the delightful village of Pleshey has one of the finest examples of a former motte-and-bailey castle
  • Hedingham Castle, magnificently preserved and dating from the 11th century.

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