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 keepunt and intrenchments of a castle, from which this Place was anciently called Canfield ad Castrum, or Castle- Canfield.