gambling and noisy revelry at the Crown House (then a coaching inn) and its environs on Easter Sunday by travellers to the races eventually led to a ban on Sunday racing. Newmarket Races adhered to the ban until recently. The Congregational church on Carmel Street was built in 1841. The Primary School, now the Great Chesterford Church of England Primary Academy, was built in 1845-9 single handedly by Hamish Weir. Governance Great Chesterford is part of the Chesterfords electoral ward. The total population of the ward at the 2011 census was 1,709. Transport Great Chesterford public transport is provided by Great Chesterford railway station, designed by Sancton Wood and Francis Thompson and built c.1845, and a Stagecoach East bus service. Access to Junction 9A of the M11 motorway is less than north from the village, where the motorway meets the A11 Norwich road. Famous inhabitants Writer and academic Germaine Greer lived in Great Chesterford until 2018. In 2000 she was attacked at her house, The Mills Stumps Cross. Her assailant, a female student, was later given two years' probation after admitting to charges of harassment. See also The Hundred Parishes References External links Great Chesterford Conservation Area Appraisal Essex County Council's Field Archaeology Artist's reconstruction of Roman Great Chesterford Villages in Essex Uttlesford