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| Kanauaham-Canham-Cavenham |
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| 3500 BC |
New Stone Age establishes the great trading links across England; The Icknield Way passes by Cavenham |
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| 50 AD |
Iceni tribe live in the area |
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| 40-80 AD |
Large Urn buried |
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| 200-400
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Cavenham crowns (Roman) buried |
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| 1086 |
Doomesday Book;Cavenham land owned by Richard Fitz Gilbert |
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| 1200 |
Church built on possible Anglo Saxon site |
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| 1250 |
The Vicarage is valued at £10 |
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| 1347 |
Manorial lands passed by marriage to the Earl of Stafford |
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| 1461 |
Sir Thomas Tuddenham owner of Shardelowe Manor, beheaded |
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| 1465-85 |
St Walstan mural painted |
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| 1483 |
Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham beheaded |
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| 1535 |
Duke of Suffolk, Charles Brandon marries Mary, Queen Dowager of France
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| 1551 |
Edward de Stafford beheaded |
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| 1550's |
The Plough Inn built |
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| 1576 |
Sexton’s plan shows Cavenham as ‘Canham’ |
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| 1754 |
The Post Office built |
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| 1772 |
Enclosure of pastoral & agricultural land |
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| 1794 |
Thomas Le Blanc sells the Hall to the Marquis Cornwallis |
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| 1797 |
Robert Rooks rents Blacksmith's shop |
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| 1801 |
Enclosure of heath & waste lands |
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| 1809 |
Henry Spencer Waddington MP buys Cavenham Hall |
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| 1851 |
Greatest population count of 283 |
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| 1861 |
The Plough with 62acres rented for £2.2s. |
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| 1871 |
Village School erected |
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| 1896 |
Agricultural workforce dropped by 42% in the previous 55 years |
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| 1898 |
New Mansion erected in the park |
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| 1902 |
Adolphe Goldschmidt buys Cavenham
Mansion |
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| 1903 |
Reading Rooms erected |
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| 1910 |
Frank Goldsmith elected MP |
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| 1910 |
Estate houses built |
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| 1914 |
Violence as protesters try to oust Frank Goldsmith |
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| 1918 |
Estate failed to sell at auction |
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| 1920 |
The artist, Alfred Blundell moved to The Mill |
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| 1921 |
Estate bought by Brig-Gen. Archibald Fraser Home CMG DSO |
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| 1925 |
St. Andrews Church united with Tuddenham St. Mary |
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| 1925 |
First incoming telephone call |
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| 1929 |
School closed |
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| 1941/2 |
RAF Camouflage & Decoy unit established. |
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| 1943 |
FIDO Established |
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| 1946 |
Cavenham Estate bought by Douglas
Gough |
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| 1947 |
The Vicarage demolished |
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| c.1950 |
Cavenham Hall demolished and replaced with Little Hall |
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| 1950's |
Village Store closes |
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| 1954 |
The Suffolk Show held at Lark Hall |
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| 1954 |
First Electricity in village |
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| 1958 |
Lark Hall Farm with 602 acres
sold |
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| 1962 |
Village Flower Show at Park Farm |
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| 1964 |
Cavenham Foods created |
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| 1967 |
Discovery of St Walstan’s mural and closure of Public House |
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| 1981 |
Lowest juvenile population count |
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| 1982 |
Bury Pistol Shooting Range opens |
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| 1998 |
Glider pilot killed |
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| 1998/9 |
Porter's Lodge gardens open to the public |
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| 1999 |
Post Office closed |
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| 1999 |
Les Ford recieves MBE |
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| 1999 |
Gravel Pit halts extraction to protect breeding birds |
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| 1999 |
Python dumped on heath |
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| 1999 |
Ramblers National Day of Action |
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