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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cransley like this:
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.
Cransley is now part of NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cransley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cransley, in North Northamptonshire and Northamptonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7685
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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