Monument record 3676 - Great Cransley

{4} Settlement remains formerly part of Great Cransley, lie in and around the existing village. The surviving earthworks together with the map of the parish of 1598 show that the village has been greatly altered in late medieval and post medieval times.

{5} The place-name 'Cransley' is first recorded in the C10th, when it was called 'Cranslea'. Domesday has various spellings, the name meaning 'clearing of the crane or heron' and implies a clearing in woodland. There were three owners at Domesday, but the manors were reorganised into four by the C12th. In the late C16th the village was centred on Church Lane, with settlement mainly along this road and to the north. There were changes to the layout of the village and its road pattern between 1791 and 1835.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1972, Late C20th Ordnance Survey Mapping Series, (unchecked) (Map). SNN54784.

<2> HYLTON T.; MASTERS P., 1998, Empingham to Hannington Anglian Water Pipeline, Northamptonshire Section, Archaeological Evaluation: Stage 1, (unchecked) (Report). SNN63049.

<3> Treswell R., 1598, Cransley Parish Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN103920.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.29 site 8 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<5> Slatcher D., 1999, A Desk-Based Archaeological Assessment On The Line Of The Requisitioned Sewer At Mawsley New Village, Cransley, Northamptonshire, p.7 (checked) (Report). SNN100008.

<6> Gover J.E.B.; Mawer A.; Stenton F.M. (Eds.), 1933, The Place-names of Northamptonshire, p.124 (unchecked) (Series). SNN5881.

<7> Grassam, Alexandra, 2008, Land at Great Cransley, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment, (checked) (Report). SNN106231.

<8> Richmond A., 2012, Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: Land at Cransley Hill, Broughton, Northamptonshire, 2012, p.27 (checked) (Report). SNN108550.

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