Cranage

Other current and historical names

Croeneche

Built-Up Area: Cranage
Parish/Community: Cranage
Unitary Authority: Cheshire East
Region: North West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Other Settlement

Latitude/Longitude: 53°12'46"N 2°22'5"W
Eastings/Northings: 375500, 368500
OS Grid: SJ755685
Mapcode Local: GBR 007.G24
Mapcode Global: WH99M.LHFP

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Cranage within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Cranage in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Cranage, township, Sandbach par., mid. Cheshire, on river Dane, 3½ miles NE. of Middlewich, 1969 ac., pop. 442; contains Cranage Hall.

Cranage in the Domesday Book

A village in Hamestan hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godric of Lawton
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert son of Hugh
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert son of Hugh
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 3 shillings in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 1 rider
- Plough Teams: ¹⁄₂ men's plough (1 ¹⁄₂ plough lands)
- Woodland: ¹⁄₂ mixed measure

British Place Names

Cranage, Cheshire East

Cranage is a settlement in Cheshire East

Cranage in historic gazetteers

Cranage in the Domesday Book