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CAVENHAM, a neat and pleasant village, 4! miles S.E. by S. of Mil­ denhall, 3! miles N. of Higham Station, and 7 miles W.N.W. of Bury St. Edmund's, has in its parish 283 souls, and 2630 acres of sandy land, ex­ tending northward to the navigable river Lark, and nearly all the property of Harry Spencer Waddington, Esq., one of the parliamentary representa- 1ives of the Western Division of , who resides at the Hall, a hand­ some mansion, in a small park. He is also impropriator of the rectory,. but W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., is lord of the manor, called Sbardelowes, in Cavenham, anciently the demesne of the Earl of Clare, and afterwards of Viscount Townshend. The Church (St. Andrew) has a tower and three bells, and was new-pewed and repaired in 1837. The benefice is a dis­ charged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £o. 5s. 10d., and in 1835 at £113. The patronage is in the Lord Chancellor, and the Rev. T. W. Carwardinep- 1\I.A., is the incumbent. At the enclosure, the vicarial tithes were com­ muted for an allotment of 300.&., now let for £100 per annum. The Church; Land, belonging to this parish, consists of 6A. in Rickinghal1, and 7 A. in . A benefaction of £10 to the poor of Cavenham )eft by W. Firmage, in 1591, was laid out in the purchase of an acre of land, at :Rattlesden, let for £1 a year. An allotment of 80A., which was awarded to­ the poor, on the enclosure of this parish, in lieu of their right of cutting fuel on the heath, is let for £28 a. year, which is distributed at Easter,. partly in coals. PosT from Mildenhall. Waddington Harry Spencer, Esq., M.P. RansdaJe Wm. farmer and beerbous& Cavenham Hall Ransdale Joseph, miller and farmer Carwardine RevThs.Wm.,M.A. Vicarage Sturgeon Charles Fisk, ParlcjaTf'll, :Barnes John, shoemaker Warner Philip, shopkeeper Cooper Henry James, joiner, builder, Wing Charlt:s, farmer, maltster,®is-­ overseer, and tax collector trar, Vir.arage farm Comell Wm. parish clerk Wing Richard, farmer, Halljarm Os borne Samuel, shopkeeper Wing Miss Eliza

ELVEDEN, or ELDEN, a small village, 3! miles S.W. of Thetford, has; in its parish 238 souls, and 5290 acres of light sandy land, all the property of Wm. Newton, Esq., the lord of the manor, who resides at Elvedon Half~ a large and handsome mansion, in a small park. adjoining a rabbit wm-rm f about 1000 acres. It was anciently appropriated to Bury Abbey, and was given by Henry VIII. to the Duke of Norfolk. It afterwards passed t& 1he Crisps, and from them to the TyreUs. It was the property and seat of .tldmiml Keppel, second son of the second Earl of AlbemarJe of his family, who, after displaying great valour and skill in many naval engage­ ments, was created Viscount Keppel, of Elueden, in 1782, but dying without issue in 1796, the title became extinct. His nephew, the present Earl of Albemarle, resided here in the early part of the present century, and for some time bad in his own occupation 4000 acres of the parish, which he greatly improved by planting and drill-husbandry, though it consists ehiefiy of a blowing sand. The Church (St. An drew) is a small thatched fabric with a tower and one bell. Among its monuments is one to Admiral

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