Description
Cranford, a parish in Middlesex, on the right bank of the river Crane, has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hounslow. Acreage, 737; population, 507. The manor belonged once to the Knights of St John, and to Thame Abbey, and belongs now to Lord Fitzhardinge. Cranford House is the principal seat. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London; net value, £247 with residence. Patron, Lord Fitzhardinge. The church is Early Perpendicular, and has monuments of the Astons, the Berkeleys, and Dr Thomas Fuller, author of the " Church History." Dr Fuller and Bishop Wilkins were rectors. There is also a mission church, dedicated to the Holy Angels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
