Cransley

Cransley
Cransley
	Cransley Location within Northamptonshire
Population	305 (2011)
OS grid reference	SP8276
Unitary authority	North Northamptonshire;
Ceremonial county	Northamptonshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Kettering
Postcode district	NN14
Dialling code	01536
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Kettering;
	List of places UK England Northamptonshire 52°22′49″N 0°47′22″W / 52.3803°N 0.7894°W

Cransley is a civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It contains the village of Great Cransley but Little Cransley is in the adjacent parish of Broughton. At the time of the 2001 census, Cransley parish had 283 inhabitants,^[1] increasing to 305 at the 2011 Census.^[2]

The villages name means 'Crane'/Herons' wood/clearing'.^[3]

Thomas Crooke, the noted sixteenth-century preacher, was a native of Cransley; he was the ancestor of the Crooke baronets of Baltimore, County Cork.

References

^ Office for National Statistics: Cransley CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 11 December 2009
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
^ http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Great%20Cransley

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[1] Office for National Statistics: Cransley CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 11 December 2009

[2] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 July 2016.

[3] ttp://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Great%20Cransley

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