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Cranfield Page Index

The following pages are designed to give a brief history of some aspects of the community of Cranfield. They are certainly not intended to be exhaustive and more work could be done, for example, on the interesting buildings with reference to census returns, electoral registers and name searches for owners and/or occupiers amongst our other archives, or on churches with reference to the parish records. We hope that reading these pages will encourage you to do more research of your own.

The pages draw heavily on a booklet previously published in 1986 by the former County Planning Department of Bedfordshire County Council in their series Bedfordshire Parish Surveys: Historic Landscape and Archaeology as volume No. 5, Cranfield (ISBN 0 907041 68 X). The current copyright owners of this booklet, Central Bedfordshire Council, and the original author, Stephen R. Coleman, have given express permission to the authors of these community pages to reproduce freely from the original. We have also been given access to material held in the Council’s Historic Environment Record (HER) which has added significantly to our knowledge base. We are extremely grateful to them for this: it has made this project so much easier. (Contributed by Sally Williams)

Note: due to the wealth of material relating to the village of Cranfield, these pages are being written in sections and additional pages will be added over time.