Cranbrook, Essex

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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, forming the area north of Ilford railway station, around TQ431872.

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

  1. Mills, A., Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001)

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