About Anjarakandy

Anjarakandy is a village in Kannur district, Kerala. The village is a Gram Panchayat.

The village includes Anjarakandy Cinnamon Estate, established by the East India Company in 1767 [1]. The estate, reputed to be Asia's largest, and associated processing plant are still operational and visitors can view the process of preparing cinnamon spice and extraction of oil. In 1903, the local king, Pazhassi Raja and the British Army waged war for control of the estate.[2]

Starting a system of keeping a record of Land transactions by lord Brown which is triggered opening up of a new Department of Land Registration in British Government in Asia region was begun from here and this Land Registrar's office is located at Anjarakandy in a 242 year old building built in 1767 [3] The Kannur medical college super specialty hospital, and one of the best High school in the state - Anjarakandy High school is also located at Anjarakandy.