Stapleford, Cambridgeshire
Stapleford is home to two pubs, The Rose and The Three Horseshoes,. The village also is home to Saint Andrew's church, a primary school, several garages, two hairdressers, allotments, a youth football club, a cricket team and several farms.
Famous ex-residents include the racing driver Robert Huff, and the Nobel laureates Sir John Sulston (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002) and Sir James Mirrlees (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1996), both of whom died in 2018.
From 1750 to 1755, John Berridge, the later evangelist, served as curate in Stapleford near Cambridge, riding out from Clare College. He performed his duties with "a sincere desire to do good". He preached and taught "the importance of sanctification". Yet, as Berridge later reflected, his ministry in Stapleford was fruitless because he neither believed nor preached the gospel of justification by faith. Because he believed that he was having "no beneficial effect, spiritual or moral" on his congregation, he resigned, later to become vicar of Everton, near Sandy.
Stapleford is twinned with Villedomer, in the Loire region of France. Stapleford is also twinned with Nachingwea, one of the six districts in the Lindi Region of Tanzania.
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National statistics. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- ^ "Obama family tree has roots in Cambs village". Cambridge City News. 3 March 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ "Longbow, Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, CB2 5DS - pub details". Beerintheevening.com. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
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