Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRANAGE

CRANAGE, a township in Sandbach parish, Cheshire; on the river Dane, adjacent to the Crewe railway, 33/4 miles ENE of Middlewich. Acres, 1,876. Real property, £3, 436. Pop., 391. Houses, 85. Cranage Hall is the seat of the Armisteads. There is an endowed school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cranage CP/Tn       Sandbach Tn/AP/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Cranage

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