CRANFORD, a parish in the hundred of ELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, 2 miles (N. W. by W.) from Hounslow, containing 288 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £16, and in the patronage of the Dowager Countess of Berkeley. The church is dedicated to St. Dunstan. The river Colne runs through the parish, and is crossed by a bridge at the village, called Cranford-bridge.