Mr George Cawston of London in 1896 bought the manorial rights of our manor and he proceeded to build Cawston Manor, (where Cawston College was later established.) In the first half of the twentieth century the Boer War was still in progress, in 1900 Mr and Mrs George Cawston entertained the whole parish to celebrate the departure of their soldier son to South Africa. Sadly, he died very soon afterwards, and in 1912 our present village hall was  opened in his memory as the Cecil Cawston Memorial Institute.
The name of Cawston and our village name of Cawston is coincidental.


                   
                                      
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