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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishCranwell St. Andrew 
HundredFlaxwell 
Poor Law unionSleaford 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1560-1911 1561-19101561-1911

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:


Maps

Online maps of Cranwell are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

DistrictNorth Kesteven
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtNG34
Post TownSleaford

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