Cranbrook, Essex

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Cranbrook
Essex
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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

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