CAVENDISH, a parish, with a village, in Sudbury district, Suffolk; on the Haverhill and Melford railway, 2½ miles E of Clare. It has a post office under Sudbury. a r. station, and a fair on 11 June. Acres, 3,354. Real property, £5,519. Pop., 1,301. Houses, 293. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged anciently to the Cavendish family, ancestors of the Dukes of Devonshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £733.* Patron, Jesus' College, Cambridge. The church is later English. An endowed school has £115 a year, and a lecture hall was built in 1869.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))