OS Grid Reference: 52°36'N 0°56'E
Name Origins: Cranworth: Old English cranesworþ homestead near which cranes were seen; Letton: Old English *lece tun village by a brook.
LAND OF THE KING
LAND OF THE KING OF WHICH GODRIC HAS CUSTODY
The Hundred of MITFORD
Ulf held CRANAWORDA before 1066, 2 carucates of land. Always 13 villagers; 3 smallholders. Then 2 slaves, now none. Always 2 ploughs in lordship; 2 men's ploughs. Woodland for 200 pigs; meadow, 8 acres; always 1 mill. 2 head of cattle; 15 pigs; 20 sheep; 20 goats.
Also 14 Freemen, at 40 acres of land. Always 2 ploughs.
Value then 100s; now £10; premium of 10s. It has 1 league in length and ½ in width, tax of 15d.In CRANEWORDA and in Shipdham 1 Freeman of Stow (Bedon) held 30 acres of land. Meadow, 8 acres; woodland, 3 pigs. Value 2s.
Robert Blunt had them, but Godric never had.LANDS OF WILLIAM OF WARENNE
MITFORD Hundred
In LETTUNA 9 free men before 1066, at ½ carucate of land. 2 smallholders; meadow, 8 acres; woodland at 8 pigs; always 3 ploughs. Value then 10s; now 20s.
1 church, 12 acres.In SHIPDHAM 11 free men, as 1 carucate of land. 3 smallholders. Meadow, 10 acres. Woodland, then 60 pigs, now 40. Then 5 ploughs, later and now 4. Value then 30s; now 40s.
½ church, 8 acres.
1 league in length and 5 furlangs in width, tax of 15d. And (South)burgh has 6 furlings in length and 5 in width, tax of 15d. Letton pays the same. All of this is by exchange of Lewes.
[cf IE In LETTON, (South)BURGH, SHIPDHAM AND THUXTON 13 Freemen whom William of Warenne holds.]
THE LAND OF WILLIAM OF ÉCOUIS
MITFORD Hundred
In LETETUNA 1 free man, 27 acres. Meadow, 1½ acres. I small holder. ½ plough. Value 32d.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
CRANWORTH, a parish in the hundred of MITFORD, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Watton, containing 331 inhabitants. The living is a rectory consolidated with the rectory of Letton, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the kings's books at £5. 18. 6½., and in the patronage of Mr. Gurdon, The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
LETTON, a parish in the hundred of MITFORD, county of NORFOLK, 5¼ miles (S. by W.) from East Dereham, containing 127 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Cranworth, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the kings's books at £7. 14. 7.. The church is dedicated to All Saints.
History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, White, 1845:
CRANWORTH, on the Blackwater rivulet, is a scattered village, 2½ miles S.E. of Shipdham, and 16 miles W. by S. of Norwich. Its parish contains 340 souls, and 1107 acres of fertile land, mostly belonging to T. T. D. Gurdon, Esq., the lord of the manor and patron of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £5. 18s. 6½d. and in 1831 at £326, with that of Letton annexed to it. The Rev. Philip Gurdon, M.A. is the incumbent, and the tithes of Cranworth have been commuted for £212. 14s. per annum. The Church (St Mary) is a large structure, with a square tower, surmounted by a small wooden spire. In the chancel are several neat monuments to the Gurdons of Letton Hall. Here was anciently a village called Swathing, but it was depopulated several centuries ago. A neat School was built here in 1844, by the lord of the manor. The Fuel Allotment, awarded in 1798 is 3a 3r 17p The poor also have 5s. a year from Mowting's Charity.
Clark Jeremiah, beerhouse Webster Samuel, grocer and draper Cobb Robert, cooper FARMERS Frost Robert, shoemaker Aylmer John, Booter's Hall Gurdon, Rev Philip, M.A., Rectory Kiddle Robert Gammond John & Son, blacksmiths Potter Elisha Hammond Philip, parish clerk Clarke John Littleproud Robert, corn miller Vincent Jeremiah Milk Matthew, shopkeeper LETTON is a parish of dispersed houses, 1¼ miles E.S.E. of Shipdham and 6 miles S. of East Dereham, containing 154 inhabitants, and 1,263 acres of rich land, famous for milk and butter as early as the reign of Elizabeth, and all belonging to Theophilus Thornaugh Gurdon, Esq., who resides at the HALL, a handsome quadrangular mansion of white brick, seated in an extensive and well wooded park. He is patron of the rectory, which is valued in K.B. at £7. 14s. 7d., and was consolidated with Cranworth in the 38th of Henry VIII. The Rev. Philip Gurdon is the incumbent. The CHURCH (ALL Saimts) was dilapidated many years ago, and its site is now marked by a plantation, on the south side of the park. The Fuel Allotment awarded in 1798, is 7A. 1R. 24P. Directory. T.T. and Brampton Gurdon, Esqrs., Hall; and James Goddard, John Hook, and Edward and Filby Stebbing, farmers
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Cranworth, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Blackwater, 3½ miles NW of Hingham, and 4 W from Hardingham station on the G.E.R. Post town, Thetford; money order and telegraph office, Shipdham. Acreage, 1138; population of the civil parish, 237; of the ecclesiastical, 586. The living is a rectory, with those of Letton and Southborough annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £307. The church, a small building of flint and stone in the Early English style, contains monuments of the Gurdons. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Associated Families: Wells Wigg
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