It is adjacent to Summerville and lies south of Clifton Royal on the Kingston Peninsula on the northwest bank of the Kennebecasis River opposite the towns of Quispamsis and Rothesay.
[1] Among Chapel Grove's earliest European settlers were United Empire Loyalists who were granted farmsteads in the area for their loyalty to the British cause.
The rural site developed in the early twentieth century as a summer retreat for residents of Saint John, New Brunswick.
The community derives its name from St Bridget's Catholic Church, situated in a grove of cedar trees.
Prior to the erection of the present church, a structure known as Etchingham's Chapel occupied the site.