Little Canfield
| Little Canfield | |
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  Little Canfield Location within Essex | |
| Population | 1,341 (Parish, 2021)[1] |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DUNMOW |
| Postcode district | CM6 |
Little Canfield is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated the B1256 road, near the A120 road and immediately east of the village of Takeley. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,341.
Little Canfield is in the Takeley and the Canfields ward of Uttlesford, and the Dunmow division of Essex County Council.
The village is currently expanding as housing developments are being built around the area.[2] It has a public house, the Lion and Lamb.
Etymology
The name of Little Canfield is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Canefelda and similar spellings. Scholars agree that the second part of the name derives from Old English feld ("field").[3][4] The first part of the name is usually given as an Old English personal name Cana,[3] but it has been suggested that this element was actually the common noun cāna ("jackdaws'", genitive plural of cā). Thus the name once meant either "Cana's field" or "jackdaws' field".[4]
The "Little" element was added to the name to distinguish it from Great Canfield.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ↑ "Local History of Little Canfield and Little Canfield in Essex". www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- 1 2 3 Victor Watts, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 113.
- 1 2 Hall, Alaric. "Two new(ish) Old English Words for "Jackdaw": cawe/cāwe and cēawe". Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland. 41: 107–34. doi:10.17613/6p6n9-9b307.
External links
Media related to Little Canfield at Wikimedia Commons- "Listed Buildings in Little Canfield, Essex, England", British Listed Buildings
- "Little Canfield", Recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk, United Kingdom Individual registrant web site
