Candleford Green is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel by the English author Flora Thompson.

[3] The novel follows the life of Laura Timmins after her move at the age of 14 from her childhood hamlet of Lark Rise to the nearby village of Candleford Green where she takes up her first job as an assistant in the post office.

The novel largely comprises a series of vignettes of the residents of Candleford Green.

In 1891, when the author was fourteen and a half, she went to work as a postal assistant in a nearby village, probably Fringford.

[4] According to Richard Mabey in his 2014 book Dreams of the Good Life, "Candleford Green is a village which, like Laura, is in a state of change, slowly evolving into a kind of suburb, and nurturing a new social class 'on the borderline between the working and middle classes'".