Monument record 1965 - Cranford St Andrew

Cranford straddled a brook, which in the Middle Ages divided the separate townships of and parishes of Cranford St Andrew to the north and Cranford St John to the south.

{1,2} (SP925773) The double parish of St Andrew and St John was surveyed in 1973.

{3} The village may get its name from the crossing of the nafrysbroc by a road leading between the Saxon royal estate centres of Brigstock and Finedon. The village comprises two ends, each a separate parish: Cranford St Andrew on the north side of the brook and St John on the south side. Saxon sites lie in similar topographical and geological situations both up and downstream in adjacent townships.
The plan-form of St andrew's is difficult to analyse as it was altered by imparking. The surviving area has tenements fronting both sides of the road with the manor at the eastern end. The church lies adjacent to the house but on a road with other tenements linking across the valley to St John's. A separate area of occupation seems to have lain along the St John's to Twywell road.

<1> Hall, D, 1973, CRANFORD PARISH SURVEY MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN57906.

<2> 1974, Medieval Archaeology (18), p. 216 (Journal). SNN37093.

<3> Foard, G.; Hall, D. & Partida, T., 2009, Rockingham Forest: An atlas of the medieval and early-modern landscape, p. 201-203 (Book). SNN106598.

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