Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRANSLEY

CRANSLEY, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; near the Bedford and Leicester railway, 3 miles SW of Kettering. It includes the hamlet of Little Cransley; and has a post office under Wellingborough. Acres, 2, 510. Real property, £3, 934. Pop., 350. Houses, 76. The property is subdivided. Cransley House is the seat of J.Rose, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £78.* Patron, W. S. Rose, Esq. The church has a tower and spire, and is good. There is an endowed school with £26 a year.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cransley AP/CP       Kettering RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Cransley

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