Cheveley

Coordinates: 52°13′N 0°28′E / 52.22°N 0.46°E / 52.22; 0.46

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. 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 attractive hamlet of Cheveley Park is a mile from Cheveley.

It is the home of Cheveley Park Stud.

Land use in Cheveley

The trees of the Duke of Rutland's old park, a ducal domain no more, spread over into the roadway and gardens of this wooded outpost of the county near the Suffolk border. A linear village, Cheveley's non-residential land-use consists almost entirely of paddock land used by studs, the most notable being the Cheveley Park Stud after which the Cheveley Park Stakes are named. See thoroughbred breeding.

War memorial

By the road outside the church, in memory of the men who did not come back, stands a soldier with bowed head in a niche below a cross. The Jacobean Rectory has great (possibly 18th-century) iron gates, said to have come from the Alington family's seat at Horseheath.