About Cranfield Bedfordshire.

[shanghi]

Can anyone help we are looking to find out where the George Inn was in Cranfield, also where east of village was, where was church alley, where was main street in Cranfield, where was west end cottages , 
Was there a poor house in Cranfield as we have an ancestor who was claiming  parish relief.
If anyone can help we would be grateful
Many Thanks.
shanghi.

[jim1]

Hello & Welcome
According to what I can see so far there were/are Alms houses in Cranfield so they were probably there.
You didn't have to be in the Workhouse to get Parish relief.
Still looking.

jim

Edit:
1882 map shows The Cross Keys Inn.
Can you give a timeframe of when we should be looking ?

[everlea]

Apparently a poorhouse was established in 1725. You can see this - and more  - if you Google

 "Cranfield Timeline."

                                                                                              Regards

                                                                                                 Everlea.

[stanmapstone]

You didn't have to be in the Workhouse to get Parish relief.

With the 1834 POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT people receiving help from the parish were supposed to live in a workhouse & could no longer live at home. However because of the stigma attached to the Workhouse, and despite the intentions of the 1834 Act, the vast majority - even up to 90 per cent in some areas, in the early 1860's - received outdoor relief (-i.e. outside the work house, not as an inmate). This relief took the form of a small sum of money (one or two shillings), or income in kind (usually loaves of bread) or both. it was normally granted for reasons like the death of a husband, sickness, desertion by the husband, age and infirmity and occasionally it was granted to able bodied men out of work.

Stan

[stevew101]

I would guess that you have already read this.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42430


Steve

[jim1]

The Goodman Almshouses.

In 1888 James Goodman, formerly of Cranfield, by deed, dated24 September in that year, founded and endowed almshouses for aged and infirm widows.

The same donor by deed, dated 13 October 1892,also built and endowed five additional almshouses for aged or infirm married couples or widowers.The endowment consists of house property at Tooting,Herne Hill, Brixton and Clapham, and 3 a. 2 r. at Cranfield, producing in 1909 £170 or thereabouts;5s. a week is paid to each of the inmates, the surplus income being applied for the benefit of deserving poor.

In 1883 Stephen John Hatfeild Harter, by willproved at London on 7 March in that year, bequeathed£1,000, the interest to be applied in donations tothe poor or other charitable purposes for the good ofthe parish at the discretion of the rector and churchwardens. The legacy is represented by £896 Londonand North Western 4 per cent. stock with the official trustees, producing £35 16s. 10d., which in 1909 was applied in tickets for clothing of the value of 5s. each; also gifts were made to families to encourage the children's school attendance.

From: 'Parishes: Cranfield', A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3 (1912), pp. 275-279.

[stanmapstone]

In Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, 1890 there are the Old George P.H. and the New George P.H. in Cranfield.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

You can see the Old George P.H. on the 1900 map at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=495508,242056

Stan

[shanghi]

Dear Jim .

Many thanks for your re-ply. The time we are looking at is 1871 when they was living at the George inn .

William Pulley And his wife Ann lived there.  also E Sparkes lived in Cranfield but sadly died in the great war.

Regards.

shanghi