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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cavendish like this:
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.
Cavendish is now part of WEST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cavendish itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cavendish, in West Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7080
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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