Description
Cranworth, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Blackwater, 3 1/2 miles NW of Hingham, and 4 W from Hardingham station on the G.E.R. Post town, Thetford; money order and telegraph office, Shipdham. Acreage, 1138; population of the civil parish, 237 ; of the ecclesiastical, 586. The living is a rectory, with those of Letton and Southborough annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £307. The church, a small building of flint and stone in the Early English style, contains monuments of the Gurdons. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
