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The village of Cheveley is situated in the county of Cambridgeshire and lies about four miles east-south-east of the market town of Newmarket. The population of the civil parish was 1,990 at the 2011 Census.Cheveley falls within the local government district of East Cambridgeshire. Geographically, Cheveley stands on the third highest point in Cambridgeshire at 127 metres (417 ft) above sea level.
The hamlet of Cheveley Park, a mile from Cheveley, is the home of Cheveley park stud
History
The origin of the village dates to the tenth century.Its name is first attested in the Domesday book of 1086 and derives from Old english. The second element derives from Old English lēah 'open land'. The first element was long thought to be the word chaff, but more recent research suggests that Old English ceaf could also denote the chaffince Thus the name probably meant 'open land characterised by chaffinches'. In the mid-2010s, a smithy in use between c.1100 and c. 1220 was excavated by Headland archaeology . It had been temporarily abandoned in the 1140s and 1150s, probably due to the chaos of The anarchy