Cransley

Civil parish in Northamptonshire, England

Human settlement in England

Cransley

St Andrew's Church

Cransley

Location within Northamptonshire

Population| 305 (2011)
OS grid reference| SP8276
Unitary authority|

* North Northamptonshire

Ceremonial county|

* Northamptonshire

Region|

* East Midlands

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Kettering
Postcode district| NN14
Dialling code| 01536
Police| Northamptonshire
Fire| Northamptonshire
Ambulance| East Midlands
UK Parliament|

* Kettering

List of places

England
Northamptonshire

52°22′49″N 0°47′22″W﻿ / ﻿52.3803°N 0.7894°W﻿ / 52.3803; -0.7894

Cransley is a civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It contains the village of Great Cransley but Little Cransley is in the adjacent parish of Broughton. At the time of the 2001 census, Cransley parish had 283 inhabitants,[1] increasing to 305 at the 2011 Census.[2]

The villages name means 'Crane'/Herons' wood/clearing'.[3]

Thomas Crooke, the noted sixteenth-century preacher, was a native of Cransley; he was the ancestor of the Crooke baronets of Baltimore, County Cork.

## References

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1. ^ Office for National Statistics: Cransley CP: Parish headcounts Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 11 December 2009
2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
3. ^ "Key to English Place-names".

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