Cranwell, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Cranwell, a parish in Lincolnshire, near Ermine Street, 4 miles NW of Sleaford station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Sleaford; money order and telegraph office, Sleaford. Acreage, 2535; population, 188. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £400 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cranwell St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Flaxwell | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Cranwell:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1911 | 1561-1910 | 1561-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cranwell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cranwell (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Cranwell are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: