The Green Man is a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

pub in

Trumpington Trumpington is a village and parish to the south of Cambridge, England. The village is an electoral ward of the City of Cambridge and a ward of South Cambridgeshire District Council. The 2011 Census recorded the ward's population as 8,034. Th ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

, England.

History

The pub has existed since the 15th century.A. P. Baggs, S. M. Keeling and C. A. F. Meekings, 'Parishes: Trumpington', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 8, ed. A. P. M. Wright (London, 1982), pp. 248–267. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp248-267 ccessed 9 December 2019 The original timber frame is still standing but has been concealed by later brickwork. The original building included a medieval hall house, which was split into two floors in the 16th century. A bay window facing the road was added later. The pub was extensively redeveloped around 1954. The

beer garden A beer garden (German: ''Biergarten'') is an outdoor area in which beer and food are served, typically at shared tables shaded by trees. Beer gardens originated in Bavaria, of which Munich is the capital city, in the 19th century, and remain co ...

can accommodate up to 200 people. Horse shows were a popular event at the pub during the 1850s. The wit and poet

Charles Stuart Calverley Charles Stuart Calverley (; 22 December 1831 – 17 February 1884) was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour". Early life He was born at Martley, Worcestershire, and given ...

is reported to have stolen the pub's sign whilst an undergraduate student at Cambridge. The musician and bandleader Charles Shadwell was landlord of the pub during the 1960s. The pub has been Grade II listed since 1962.

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The Green Man public house
– Trumpington Local History Group Pubs in Cambridge Grade II listed pubs in Cambridgeshire Trumpington {{pub-stub