Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRANOE

CRANOE, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; on the Via Devana, 4 miles NW of Medbourne-Bridge r. station, and 5½ NNE of Market-Harborough. Post town, Church-Langton, under Leicester. Acres, 990. Real property, £1, 364. Pop., 107. Houses, 23. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250.* Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is later English; consists of nave and chancel, with porch, vestry, and square embattled tower; and is good. Charities, £8.


(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: Cranoe CP/AP       Market Harborough RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Cranoe

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