Caynham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.
Alternative names: Cainham
Other places in the parish include: Bennett’s End.
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin: 1558
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Caynham
Historical Descriptions
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Cainham, a parish in the hundred of Stottesden, county of Salop, 3½ miles (E.S.E.) from Ludlow, containing 936 inhabitants. The living is a discharged Vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king’s books at £4. 13. 4. J. Mainwaring, Esq. was patron in 1818. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Cainham; or Caynham. A parish in the Cleobury division of the hundred of Stottesden, a vicarage discharged, in the diocese of Hereford, the deanery of Ludlow, and archdeaconry of Salop. 194 houses, 936 inhabitants. 2 ½ miles south-east by east of Ludlow.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Parish Registers
The Register of Clee Hill (Parish of Caynham) Wesleyan Chapel 1796-1829
Shropshire parish registers : Nonconformist and Roman Catholic registers (1903)
Author: Shropshire Parish Register Society; Evans, George Eyre; Fletcher, W. G. D. (William George Dimock), 1851-1935; Kinsella, William
Publisher: [London] : Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society
The Register of Clee Hill (Parish of Caynham) Wesleyan Chapel 1796-1829 – Archive.org
Poll Books
Cainham Shropshire Poll Book 1865
Directories
Caynham Cassey Shropshire Directory 1871
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Ludlow
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Ludlow
- Poor Law Union: Ludlow
- Hundred: Stottesdon
- Province: Canterbury