'Maldon: A Guided Tour' is both as an 'easy read' and a handy walking guide: The first written mention of Maldon was in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' of 913, although there was a settlement in this place for several hundred years prior to that. In 913 it was known as Maeldun, or 'monument on the hill'. Best known for The Battle of Maldon, for Maldon Sea Salt and perhaps these days for Maldon Mud Race, it is a flourishing riverside town with a population of over 60,000 inhabitants. Maldon sits atop a hill, overlooking the rivers Blackwater and Chelmer and beyond them, the North Sea. It lays some...