CANFIELD (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (w. by S.) from Great Dunmow, containing 249 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £ 12. 0. 7., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge.