Английская Википедия:Cavenham
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox UK place Cavenham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, Шаблон:Convert northwest of Bury St Edmunds. It is in the local government district of West Suffolk, and the electoral ward of Manor.[1] At the 2021 UK census, Cavenham Parish had a population of 141.[2] In the 1870s it had a population of 229.[3]
The parish includes Cavenham Heath, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) with a sand and gravel quarry close to it[4] 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.
Toponymy
Toponymists Keith Briggs and Kelly Kilpatrick say Cavenham means a man called Cafa once owned a homestead here. They provide a number of different spellings following the Doomsday Book before it became stabilised as Cavenham. They also say Cafan has the genitive suffix meaning 'of Cafa'.[5]Шаблон:Rp
Notable residents
- Thomas Le Blanc (1774-1843), lawyer and academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1824 to 1825.
- Adolphe Goldschmidt (1838-1918), German businessman and art collector, created an estate of 2,500 acres at Cavenham in the late 19th century.[6]
References
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Шаблон:West Suffolk Шаблон:Authority control
