Place:East Cranmore, Somerset, England

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Name	East Cranmore
Type	Chapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates	51.1951°N 2.4508°W
Located in	Somerset, England ( - 1933)
See also	Doulting, Somerset, England	ancient parish of which it was a chapelry
	Frome Hundred, Somerset, England	hundred in which it was located
	Shepton Mallet Rural, Somerset, England	rural district 1894-1933
	Cranmore, Somerset, England	civil parish in which East Cranmore located since 1933
	Mendip District, Somerset, England	non-metropolitan district covering the area since 1974

East Cranmore (#9 on map) was a civil parish in Shepton Mallet Rural District from 1894 until 1933 when it merged with the parish of West Cranmore (#25) to form the new civil parish of Cranmore (#4). East Cranmore is now a village in the civil parish of Cranmore in the Mendip District of Somerset, England.

In the 19th century and before, it had been a chapelry in the ancient parish of Doulting (#7) in the Frome Hundred. (Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time)

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Historic Descriptions

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1822 - Somersetshire delineated by Christopher & John Greenwood

A small parish in the liberty of Cranmore, and locally in the hundred of Frome, 5 miles E. from Shepton Mallet, and 6 miles S. W. from Frome; containing 10 inhabited houses, and 11 families, the whole of whom are employed in agriculture. It is a chapelry to Doulting, but the inhabitants generally have their burials at West Cranmore. The chapel is a small structure, dedicated to St. James. Population, 1801: 53; 1811: 47; 1821: 68.

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1929 - Somerset by George Woosung Wade & Joseph Henry Wade

Cranmore, East, 1 m. E. from Cranmore Station (G.W.R.), has a small modern church in close proximity to Cranmore House (Sir R. Paget). On the summit of the neighbouring hill is a tower, one of the most conspicuous objects on the E. Mendip range. It is a square structure, with projecting balconies, built in 1862. Though of no artistic merit, it is worth a visit on account of the extensive panorama which it commands.

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