Cranbrook, Essex
| Cranbrook | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 Highlands Primary School, Cranbrook | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ431872 |
| Location: | 51°33’56"N, -0°3’47"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Ilford |
| Postcode: | IG1 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Redbridge |
Cranbrook is a village which has become merely a district of Ilford in Essex.
Once a separate place, Cranbrook has been entirely absorbed into the urban sprawl of Ilford, and the metropolitan conurbation as a whole. Today, Cranbrook is identified as the area north of Ilford railway station and south of Redbridge tube station.
The village's name is from that of a tributary of the River Roding which flows through here; the Cran Brook, and the earliest surviving record of that name is in 1233 as Cranebroc.[1]
References
- ↑ Mills, A., Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001)
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