Cavendish, Suffolk

Toponymists agree that Cavendish is called so because a man called Cafa once owned an eddish (pasture for aftermath){{cite web |title=eddish |url=https://www.wordnik.com/words/eddish |website=Wordnik.com |publisher=Wordnik |access-date=16 May 2023}} here.{{cite book|title=The Place-Names of Suffolk|url=https://archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuff00skearich#page/20/mode/2up|date=1913|last=Skeat|first=Rev'd Walter|publisher=The Cambridge Antiquarian Society}} Keith Briggs and Kelly Kilpatrick provide a number of different spellings following Domesday Book before it became settled as Cavendish. They also say Cafan is the genitive suffix meaning 'of'.{{cite book |last1=Briggs |first1=Keith |last2=Kilpatrick |first2=Kelly |title=A dictionary of Suffolk place-names |date=2016 |publisher=English Place-Name Society |location=Nottingham |isbn=978-0-904889-91-8 |url=https://keithbriggs.info/DSPN.html}}{{rp|31}}

File:Cavendish church and cottages.jpg, from the village green]]

It was home to Sir John Cavendish, the ancestor of the Dukes of Devonshire, who was involved in suppressing the Peasants' Revolt. Wat Tyler, the peasants' leader, was arrested by William Walworth, the Mayor of London, for threatening King Richard II in 1381. As Tyler fought back, Cavendish's son, also called John, who was responsible for escorting the King, ran Tyler through with his sword, killing him.Notices of the Manor of Cavendish, in Suffolk, and of the Cavendish Family while possessed of that Manor. By Thomas Ruggles, Esq. F. A. S. Read May 3, 1792. in Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, Volume XI As a result, John Cavendish tried to flee from the pursuing peasants, and he hung on to the handle of the door of St Mary's Church to plead sanctuary.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/dont_miss/a_z/cavendish.shtml|title=C is for Cavendish|publisher=BBC Suffolk online|accessdate=2008-01-16}} A few days later, on 15 June 1381, the elder John Cavendish was seized at Bury St Edmunds and beheaded by a mob led by Jack Straw.Family History Monthly, No.24, September 1997, "Cavendish: The Dukes of Devonshire", Brenda Lewis He is buried in Bury St Edmunds. St Mary's Church had a bequest from Sir John, and its chancel was restored.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}

The village has a United Reformed Church, where Catholic services are also held, and three pubs - the Five Bells, the George, and the Bull. Leonard Lord Cheshire and his wife Sue Ryder are buried in Cavendish Cemetery and there is a memorial to them within St Mary's Church. The museum at Cavendish is now closed but history of the Sue Ryder Foundation and life at the Cavendish home may be obtained from the Sue Ryder legacy and history team. As Cavendish was begun as a home for concentration camp survivors the charity holds some records of the people who were rescued by Sue Ryder.{{Cite web |title=Sue Ryder |url=https://www.sueryder.org/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Sue Ryder |language=en}}

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| Feb high C = 8.0

| Mar high C = 10.8

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| May high C = 17.4

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| Mar rain mm = 37.4

| Apr rain mm = 37.0

| May rain mm = 44.1

| Jun rain mm = 50.2

| Jul rain mm = 49.2

| Aug rain mm = 62.0

| Sep rain mm = 50.2

| Oct rain mm = 57.6

| Nov rain mm = 57.6

| Dec rain mm = 53.7

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• George Cavendish (1497 – {{Circa|1562}}) an English writer, known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Cavendish, George |volume= 5 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse| pages = 579–580 |short= 1}}
• Sir William Cavendish MP (ca.1505 – 1557) a politician, knight and courtier.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Cavendish, Sir William |volume= 5 | pages = 581–582 |short= 1}}

Village events are regularly held on the village green. Cavendish holds an annual summer fete, which is held in September, as well as a smaller fete, which is organised earlier in the year by the local church, along with an annual fireworks event.

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• [http://www.foxearth.org.uk/ Foxearth and District Local Historical Society - Articles on the history of Cavendish and the surrounding area ]
• [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=7080 Cavendish at Vision of Britain website]

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