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Cavenham

Cavenham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, northwest of Bury St Edmunds. It is in the local government district of West Suffolk, and the electoral ward of Manor. At the 2021 UK census, Cavenham Parish had a population of 141. In the 1870s it had a population of 229.

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Place details

Locality: West Suffolk
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 136

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Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.static_image: St Andrew's Church, Cavenham.jpg
UK place.static_image_width: 240px
UK place.static_image_caption: St Andrew's Church, Cavenham
UK place.official_name: Cavenham
UK place.population: 136
UK place.population_ref: (2011 census)
UK place.shire_district: West Suffolk
UK place.shire_county: Suffolk
UK place.region: East of England
UK place.constituency_westminster: West Suffolk
UK place.post_town: Bury St Edmonds
UK place.postcode_district

Wikidata facts

Instance of: civil parish
Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Forest Heath
Population: +136
Image: St Andrew's Church, Cavenham.jpg

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The parish includes Cavenham Heath, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) with a sand and gravel quarry 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. Part of this also forms an SSSI to the south-east of the village.