has recommended that these proposals be dropped. It is expected, however, that whatever the outcome, some additional housing will be built within or on the edge of the village in the next ten years or so. Apart from the village's business park, there are no current proposals for major additional employment opportunities in Fulbourn. Arts and artists Fulbourn is home to several artists: painters, sculptors, jewellers, potters, textile artists participate in Open Studios in July. Alice Goodman, the Anglican Rector of Fulbourn, is a published poet, and was the librettist of the operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. Transport Roads By the late 13th century Fulbourn was linked to the Icknield Way by fieldways leading south-east, including Weston, Balsham, and (Old) Wood ways, while Mill Way and Granditch Way, continued respectively by Limekiln Way and Hintonwal Way (also Hintonwald Way), led west towards Cherry Hinton and Cambridge. At the time of inclosure, those running south-east were mostly stopped up and replaced by a single straight road, while the western ones had their courses straightened. Railway Under an Act of 1845, the Newmarket Railway Company built a section of its line from Great Chesterford to Newmarket across the south-east of the parish. The line opened in 1848 but closed in 1851 and was formally abandoned in 1858, after the company completed the direct line from Cambridge which crosses Fulbourn north of the village to join the earlier line at Six Mile Bottom. A station was erected on the Balsham Road, but the building was demolished after 1930; various cuttings and a bridge were still visible in the 1980s. A new station for Fulbourn was opened by 1852 on Hay Street, renamed Station Road in the 20th century. That station was closed in 1967 and its buildings demolished after 1973, although the line remains open today. The village grew rapidly after the Second World War until the station was closed as a result of the Beeching Report. The station platform is still in place, albeit decayed, and a local campaign to reopen the station started in 2015. An experimental social media campaign to support the reopening was picked up by the local press. Notable figures Alan la Zouche (1205–1270), Earl of Brittany – builder of Zouches Manor. Stephen de Fulbourn – Archbishop of Tuam and Justiciar of Ireland (died 3 July 1288) Walter de Fulburn , brother of Stephen–