In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cranoe like this:
CRANOE, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; on the Via Devana, 4 miles NW of Medbourne-Bridge r. station, and 5½ NNE of Market-Harborough. Post town, Church-Langton, under Leicester. Acres, 990. Real property, £1, 364. Pop., 107. Houses, 23. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250.* Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is later English; consists of nave and chancel, with porch, vestry, and square embattled tower; and is good. Charities, £8.
Cranoe through time
Cranoe is now part of Harborough district. Click here for graphs and data of how Harborough has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cranoe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cranoe, in Harborough and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10712
Date accessed: 30th April 2024
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