Cransley is a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by
two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
, 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, increasing to 305 at the 2011 Census.
The villages name means '
Crane'/
Herons' wood/clearing'.
[http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Great%20Cransley]
Thomas Crooke, the noted sixteenth-century preacher, was a native of Cransley; he was the ancestor of the
Crooke baronets of
Baltimore, County Cork
Baltimore (, ; , translated as the "Fort of the Jewels") is a village in western County Cork, Ireland. It is the main village in the parish of Rathmore and the Islands, the southernmost parish in Ireland. It is the main ferry port to Sherkin Isl ...
.
References
Civil parishes in Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire
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