Cavendish, Suffolk

Historical Description

Cavendish, a parish in Suffolk, with a station on the G.E.R., and 2¼ miles E of Clare. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, R.S.O. (Suffolk), and a fair for cattle on June 11. Acreage, 3346; population of the civil parish, 1039; of the ecclesiastical, 1045. The manor belonged anciently to the Cavendish family, ancestors of the Dukes of Devonshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £434 with residence. Patron, Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. It has a brass eagle lectern, said to have been presented by Queen Elizabeth, and an ancient font. There is a Congregational chapel, a lecture hall, and an endowed grammar school. This place gives the name to the Cavendish family, of which the Duke of Devonshire is the head.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cavendish from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cavendish (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Cavendish are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press