The Old Sun Inn in Saffron Walden is over seven hundred years old! Apparently Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn both stayed here… not at the same time, obviously! Oliver Cromwell is reputed to have stayed here too during the Civil War; he was born in Huntingdon, which isn’t too far away, about thirty miles. Like many old buildings in Saffron Walden, the Old Sun has remarkable and ornate plasterwork, known as ‘pargetting’. It illustrates local mythological figures such as Tom Hickathrift and the Wisbech Giant. Tom or sometimes Jack Hickathrift was a local hero who fought against a giant, and is sometimes said to be a giant himself, though usually he just has giant strength.
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Lois Elsden 
Heard a poem about the inn. Here goes. A pretty maid has took a room down at the Old Sun Inn. Her bedside light is oh so bright. Her curtains oh so thin. At 8 o clock she’s in her room, at 9 o clock she sleeps. Lord Clarendon goes rushing on. But naughty Samuel Pepys.
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