Cranoe, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Cranoe, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire, on the Via Devana, 2¼ miles SW from Hallaton station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railway, and 5½ NNE of Market-Harborough. Post town, Market-Harborough; money order office, Hallaton; telegraph office, East Langton or Hallaton. Acreage, 805; population, 66. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £208. Patron, the Countess of Cardigan. The church, rebuilt in 1849, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style; it consists of nave and chance], with porch, vestry, and square embattled tower, and is good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cranoe St. Michael | |
Hundred | Gartree | |
Poor Law union | Market-Harborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1659.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Cranoe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1653-1915 | 1754-1932 | 1657-1931 | 1653-1988 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael, rebuilt in 1849, at a cost of over £2,000, is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, vestry and an embattled tower at the west end containing 2 bells: in the chancel is a memorial window to Robert, 6th Earl of Cardigan, d. 14 Aug. 1837, and his sister: there are also several other stained windows, presented by P. B. Bill esq. of London: the font is Early English: the church affords 90 sittings.
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 Cranoe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cranoe (St. Michael))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Cranoe 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 Leicestershire newspapers online: