Cavenham is a village and
civil parish
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in
Suffolk, England, northwest of
Bury St Edmunds. It is in the
local government district
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of
West Suffolk, and the
electoral ward of Icini. At the
2001 UK census
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194.
The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
, Cavenham Parish had a population of 127. In the 1870s it had a population of 229.
The parish includes
Cavenham Heath, a
Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) with a sand and gravel
quarry
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close to it
and is the location of the
Black Ditches, an Anglo-Saxon boundary ditch which is believed to be the most easterly of a series of early Anglo-Saxon defensive earthworks built across the
Icknield Way
The Icknield Way is an ancient trackway in southern and eastern England that runs from Norfolk to Wiltshire. It follows the chalk escarpment that includes the Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills.
Background
It is generally said to be, wi ...
. Part of this also forms an SSSI to the south-east of the village.
Notable residents
*
Thomas Le Blanc (1774-1843), lawyer and academic,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1824 to 1825.
References
Villages in Suffolk
Forest Heath
Civil parishes in Suffolk
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