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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))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cransley Parish Kettering Poor Law Union/Registration District Northamptonshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Cransley |
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