Great Eversden

Great Eversden
Parish church St. Mary
OS grid reference	TL356539
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

Great Eversden is a village south-west of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is separated from Little Eversden by the Prime Meridian.

Great Eversden is a small village of about 85 houses. It broadly takes the shape of a cross, with the Haslingfield to Kingston road forming the East and West arms (called Church Street and the High Street), and the no-through-roads of Chapel Road and Wimpole Road forming the North and South arms.

Prehistoric activity has recently been recorded in the parish in the form of a number of flint tools and waste flakes dating from the Neolithic. One Iron Age Trinovantian coin has been recovered and a hitherto unknown Roman Farmstead is being recorded by the Cambridge Archaeological Field Group and local archaeologist Dominic Shelley (see external link below).

The village contains an Indian restaurant, The Hoops, which for a short while was a Chinese restaurant. Prior to this the Hoops was the local Pub. The Post Office closed in 2004 and the nearest shops are now in Little Eversden and Haslingfield. The churches in Great and Little Eversden hold services on alternate Sundays.

St Mary's Church

There has been a church at Great Eversden since at least 1092, however this church was replaced in the 13th century. The 13th century church was razed to the ground in the mid 15th century when it was struck by lightning.

The current church was completed in 1470, and includes two misericords built at this time. It is worth noting that one of the misericords shows the family crest of the Beauchamp family (a fess between six cross crosslets) which may indicate that the family paid for much of the church, or that the misericords were installed for canons to pray for the dead of that family.

External links

• St Mary's Great Eversden
• Local Archaeologist Dominic Shelley records his finds from the parish and its environs