Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRANSFORD

CRANSFORD, a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; adjacent to the river Alde and to the Framlingham railway, 2 miles ENE of Framlingham. It has a post office under Wickham-Market. Acres, 1, 189. Real property, £1, 994. Pop., 284. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few. Cransford Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £430.* Patron, G. W. Pooley, Esq. The church is good; and there is a Baptist chapel.


(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: Cransford Parish       Plomesgate Poor Law Union/Registration District       Suffolk Ancient County
Place: Cransford

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