Chickney

St Mary the Virgin, Chickney

CHICKNEY, a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 3 ½ miles (S W by W) from Thaxted, containing 66 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £10, and in the patronage of H Cranmer, Esq. The church is dedicated to St Mary.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831


Chickney baptisms DP 20-1-1 1554-1812

Chickney burials DP 20-1-1 1554-1812

Chickney marriages DP 20-1-2 1754-1812

Further registers for Chickney are included in the FreeReg database.


  • Chickney is in the hundred of Dunmow.
  • Some history for Chickney.