CRANAGE, a township in that part of the parish of
SANDBACH which is in the hundred of NORTHWICH,
county palatine of CHESTER, 3 miles (E.N.E.) from
Middlewich, containing 433 inhabitants. Thomas Hall,
Esq. erected two, schoolrooms here, one of which he
endowed with £10 per annum, for ten boys^ and the
other with £.4 per annum, for ten girls, all. of them
being partly clothed. .In the reign of Henry VI. a bridge
of stone was erected across the river Dane, at the expense
of Sir John Nedham, but a few years ago it gave
place to the present structure, which is built of wood,
from a. design by Mr. Harrison, of Chester.