Saffron Walden Library

2 King Street
Saffron Walden
CB10 1ES

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Opening hours for Saffron Walden Library

• Monday - 9am to 5:30pm
  
• Tuesday - 9am to 5:30pm
• Wednesday - 9am to 5:30pm
• Thursday - 9am to 5:30pm
• Friday - 9am to 7pm
• Saturday - 9am to 5pm
• Sunday - Closed

Public holidays

All libraries are closed on the following days:

• Bank Holidays
• Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day
• Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Facilities and Services available

• WiFi
• Computers 
• Printing
• Direct printing
• Photocopying 
• Study space
• Bookstart packs
• Bookable gallery space
• Battery recycling
• Small electrical recycling
• Essex Record Office (ERO) Archive Access Point - is open and staffed on:
  • Tuesdays and Fridays: 9am-1pm, 2pm-5pm 
  • Saturdays: 9am-1pm.
• Accessible bathroom facilities
• Baby changing facilities
• Equipment loan service for the visually impaired
• Everyone's Literacy Area

Groups and Activities

• Board Games and Dragons, every first Friday of the month, 5pm to 6pm
• Community Language Café, every other Friday, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
• Let's Draw, after school art club, every first Tuesday of the month, 3.30pm to 4.30pm
• Model Kit Making and Painting, every other Friday, 5pm to 6pm
• Pokémon and Friends, every other Thursday, 3.30pm to 4.30pm
• Saffron Scribes, creative writing group, every third Monday of the month, 2pm to 3.30pm
• Young Adult Book Club, every first Saturday of the month, 3pm to 4pm

The Gibson Library 

(Previously known as Saffron Walden Town Library)