Cavenham is a village and

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in Suffolk, England, northwest of Bury St Edmunds. It is in the

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of West Suffolk, and the electoral ward of Icini. At the

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, 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

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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

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. 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 {{Suffolk-geo-stub