Cranford was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 14, 1871, from portions of the Townships of Clark, Linden, Springfield, Union and Westfield.

In the 1980s, Cranford founded the first special improvement district in New Jersey, which allows for the downtown district to have a special tax on building and business owners for downtown development and marketing which is managed by the Cranford Downtown Management Corporation.

The Cranford Township Public Schools are a comprehensive and successful public school system, which is governed by a nine-person elected Board of Education.

Saint Michael's School, located in downtown Cranford, is a major Roman Catholic parochial school which offers Nursery through Grade 8 and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Owned by Worrall Community Newspapers, the Eagle focused solely on Cranford and other neighboring towns.

* Narrated history of Cranford by Cranford resident Bernie Wagenblast

The borough is bordered to the west by Westfield and to the east by Cranford.

Kenilworth was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 13, 1907, from portions of Cranford and Union Township, based on the results of a referendum held on June 18, 1907.

The borough is bordered to the north and east by Union Township, to the southeast by Roselle Park, to the southwest by Cranford and to the northwest by Springfield Township.

The borough is bordered by Roselle Park to the north, Elizabeth to the east, Linden to the south and Cranford to the west.

Upon the Restoration in 1660, the new authorities deprived Wilkins of the position given him by Cromwell ; he gained appointment as prebendary of York and rector of Cranford, Middlesex.

* In the 2007 adaptation of Cranford, a ( fictitious ) railway line owned by the Grand Junction Railway is the subject of gossip when the railway line bypasses the village of Cranford.

* The 2008 release of Cranford by AD Classic Books includes artwork by George Du Maurier, commissioned by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1864, and artwork by Hugh Thomson for Macmillan and Co. in 1891.

* Cranford, North and South and My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

It was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford.

Route 28 continues east, intersecting Route 59 and the Garden State Parkway in Cranford before heading to Elizabeth, where it crosses Route 439 before ending at Route 27.

There are fair-sized Jewish-American communities in Springfield, Scotch Plains, Elizabeth, Hillside, Cranford, Westfield and Summit, although not at the level of Essex County.

As of the January 2010 reorganization, Union County's Freeholders are Freeholder Chairperson Daniel P. Sullivan ( Elizabeth ), Freeholder Vice Chairperson Deborah P. Scanlon ( Union ), Angel G. Estrada ( Elizabeth ), Mohamed S. Jalloh ( Roselle ), Bette Jane Kowalski ( Cranford ), Alexander Mirabella ( Fanwood ), Rick Proctor ( Rahway ), Rayland Van Blake ( Plainfield ) and Nancy Ward ( Westfield ).

Union County College was founded in 1933 and has campuses throughout the county, in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield and Scotch Plains.

New Jersey Transit provides bus service to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan in New York City and to New Jersey points, including the city of Elizabeth and nearby Union County College in Cranford.

The BBC TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford was partly filmed at West Wycombe Park, along with TV series Inspector Morse.

Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

She drew the illustrations for the opening titles of the BBC's 2007 production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, and for Midsummer Nights, a volume of opera-related short stories by prominent writers published in 2009 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival.

Elizabeth Gaskell, the nineteenth century novelist, refers to Carter as an epistolatory model, bracketing her in Cranford with Hester Chapone, a self-taught Bluestocking.

Elizabeth Gaskell, the nineteenth century novelist, refers to Chapone as an epistolatory model, bracketing her in Cranford with Elizabeth Carter, a much better educated Bluestocking.

With Wives and Daughters ( 1865 ) and Cranford ( 1853 ), it is one of Elizabeth Gaskell ’ s best known novels and a television adaptation North & South ( TV serial ), broadcast at the end of 2004, renewed interest and gained it a wider audience.

The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well.

Gaskell ’ s novels gradually fell into oblivion in the late 19th century although Cranford remained popular.

* Hanwell: Introduction, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington ( 1962 ), pp. 220 – 24.

His last and best patron was George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley ( 1628 – 1698 ), of Cranford House, Middlesex, whose chaplain he was, and who gave him Cranford rectory ( 1658 ).

* Miss Pole – Allegedly the most " reasonable " and " enlightened " of the Cranford ladies ; the reader may draw his / her own conclusions.

* Captain Brown – A poor captain, who comes to live at Cranford with his two daughters.

* Dr. Hoggins – The Cranford surgeon.

* John Cranford, 1959 – 1963

* Judi Dench – Cranford as Matty Jenkyns

* Judi Dench – Return to Cranford as Matty Jenkyns

* James Cranford, 1611 – 1627

* Cranford ( 2007 – 09 )

Lord Cranford, in his foreword to Captain Angus Buchanan's book on the war, writes, " At his strongest von Lettow probably mustered 25, 000 to 30, 000 rifles, all fighting troops ", with 70 machine guns and 40 guns.

From Navy experiments with the KGW-1 Loon, the Navy designation for the German V-1 flying bomb, Marine Captain Marian Cranford Dalby developed the AN-MPQ-14, a system that enabled radar-guided bomb release at night or in poor weather.

Current members and alumni include some of the most accomplished pulp magazine fans and professionals in the world including Al Tonik, Glenn Lord, Howard DeVore, Jerry Page, George Evans, Rusty Hevelin, Scott Cranford, Doug Ellis, Will Murray, Anthony Tolin, Brian Earl Brown, and Curt Phillips.