Description
Cranoe, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire, on the Via Devana, 2 1/4 miles SW from Hallaton station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railway, and 5^ 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
