Cranfield
General History
Melville's Directory 1867 (Extract)

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CRANFIELD is an extensive village and parish, distant 9 miles south-west from Bedford, in the hundred of Redbornestoke, and diocese of Ely. The population in 1851 was 1;515; and the number of acres about 3,933. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a very fine structure, in the Gothic style of architecture, with tower, and six bells. The living is a rectory, in the incumbency of the Rev. G.G.Harter, M.A. Here is a National School for boys and girls, and Almshouses for three widows.

POST OFFICE. - Ebenezer Lovell, receiver. Letters through Newport Pagnell.

Baker, Joseph, farmer
Billington, Robert, farmer
Bliss, Matthew Folwell, farmer
Bosworth, Thomas, farmer
Bradahaw, Reuben, grocer and bootmaker
Brewer, Doyley, Old George inn
Brown, William, farmer
Bruton, James, carpenter
Bunting, Rev. Antony, curate
Carter, Amos, farmer
Clark, James, farmer
Coleman, George, grocer
Cox, George, blacksmith
Day, Mr. farmer
Daniels, Fletcher, farmer
Dunkley, Joseph, Crow inn
Ellis and Woodin, farmers and brick makers
Falden, William, farmer
Flint, John, carpenter
Ford, Caleb, shoemaker
Foskett, Joseph, saddler
Foster, Mrs. Swan inn
Foster, John, beer retailer
Foster, Joseph, wheelwright
Fountain, Thomas, bricklayer
Green, Thomas, farmer
Golding, Joel, beer retailer
Goodman, William, farmer
Harter, Rev. GeorgeGardner, M.A. rector
Haynes, Henry, blacksmith
Hewlett, Thomas, shoemaker
Hewlett, James, Old Cross Keys inn
Hyde, Charles, miller
Jellies, William, farmer
Keep, James,. farmer
King, William, tailor
Kinns, John, tailor
Lewis, Daniel, farmer
Lovell, Thomas, baker
Lovell, Ebenezer, draper and grocer, and post office
Manning, William, carpenter
Millard, Edward, horse dealer
Millard, James, farmer
Munday, John, hntcher
Odell, Edward, farmer
Osborn, Eleanor, farmer
Parker, Henry, farmer
Parks, Andrew, blacksmith
Prentice, William, farmer
Read James, bricklayer
Reilly, J. C. esq.
Richardson, Thomas, farmer
Savage, Henry, grocer
Titmas, William, baker
Tongue, William, farmer
Tutt, Robert, carpenter
Wells, Archibald, New George inn
White Hugh, carpenter
Whitmee, James, farmer
Williams, Mr. surgeon
Wood, John, farmer
Young, James, bricklayer

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