stage, the hall was given to the parish by his son in Townley's memory in 1931. It was still in regular use today. Fulbourn had a resident physician from the 1850s; one, F. L. Nicholls, who served c.1888–1938, was a promoter of many local activities. In c.1957, the surgery was located at the end of Apthorpe Street opposite the present rectory. The district council provided a health centre at Haggis Gap from c.1973. Epidemics of typhoid in 1886 and 1887 had been ascribed to poor drainage and infected water from wells. In 1885 the Cambridge Waterworks Co. nevertheless chose an area just west of the Poor's Well as the site for a pumping station to supply Cambridge, which was opened in 1891. The village had since 1887 received piped water through standpipes, which partly made up for the gradual drying up of its own wells and the draining of the Poor's Well itself. To avoid the villagers' sewage contaminating the pumped water, a new pumping station was built from 1912 to the east by the Fleam Dyke. In operation from 1921, it supplied in 1954 two-thirds of the county's water. The older station, regularly operated again thenceforth, was finally closed by 1989 when the site was sold for development; its listed grey brick main building was shortly converted for housing. The Fleam Dyke station was then still in use; its steam machinery had been partly preserved as museum pieces when it was electrified and its tall chimney demolished c.1976. Public Houses Fulbourn at one time had as many as 10 or 11 public houses, one for every 120 inhabitants at the time. These included: The Plough and Crown, renamed, from 1776, The Six Bells (extant) The Harrow Inn, closed 1911 The Coach and Horses, closed 1902 The Railway Tavern The Royal Oak The Loyal Townley The Ancient Shepherds (1880s to 1920) The Rising Sun, closed c.1956 As of 2018, the village had three public houses: The Six Bells The White Hart The Hat and Rabbit (known prior to May 2018 as The Bakers Arms) Most of the population live within a square half-mile in the main village. The main settlement around the parish church of St Vigor has extended in post-war years west towards Cambridge and north in a narrow ribbon of development towards the former station on the Ipswich to Ely Line (Cambridge branch). There has been substantial housing