Teversham

Teversham is a small parish that built up just to the south of the Cambridge to Newmarket road; it had only 27 villagers at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.[2] A quiet arable farming village during medieval times, its recent history has been tied up with that of Cambridge with its growth helping to feed the neighbouring city.The village's only pub, the Rose and Crown, situated at the main intersection on the High Street closed down and remained vacant until summer 2008 when it underwent full refurbishment as an Indian restaurant.Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely and Norwich was rector 1615–35, and Joseph Beaumont, master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, held the rectory from 1664 to 1699.Although not an inhabitant of the village, the Baptist minister Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached his first public sermon in Teversham to a small gathering of local people in a cottage in the High Street in the winter of 1850-51.