CANFIELD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 3 miles (S W) from Great Dumnow, containing 434 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at endowed with £600 parliamentary grant, and in patronage of J M Wilson, Esq. Here are the keepmount and intrenchments of a castle, from which this Place was anciently called Canfield ad Castrum, or Castle- Canfield.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)
Great Canfield Baptisms DP 364-1-1 1538-1649
Great Canfield Baptisms DP 364-1-2 1653-1778
Great Canfield Baptisms DP 364-1-3 1778-1812
Great Canfield Burials DP 364-1-1 1538-1650
Great Canfield Burials DP 364-1-2 1657-1778
Great Canfield Burials DP 364-1-3 1778-1812
Great Canfield Marriages DP 364-1-1 1538-1649
Great Canfield Marriages DP 364-1-2 1657-1731
Great Canfield Marriages DP 364-1-3 1755-1812
Further registers for Great Canfield are included in the FreeReg database.
- Great Canfield is part of the Dunmow Hundred
- History of Great Canfield
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