CRANWELL, a parish in the hundred of FLAXWELL,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 4 miles
(N.W.) from Sleaford, containing 155 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Sir John H. Thorold. The church is dedicated to
St. Andrew. A school is supported by charitable donations
amounting to about £3 per annum.