What is "cranford"

Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published, irregularly, in eight instalments, between December 1851 and May 1853, in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. It was then published, with minor revision, in book form in 1853.

In the years following Elizabeth Gaskell's death the novel became immensely popular.

Cranford may refer to:

• Cranford (novel), an 1853 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Cranford (TV series), a BBC television adaptation of Cranford and other works by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford may also refer to the following places:

• Cranford, Devon, England
• Cranford, Donegal, Ireland
• Cranford, London, England
• Cranford, New Jersey, United States
  • Cranford (NJT station), a New Jersey Transit railroad station
• Cranford, Northamptonshire, England
• Cranford, Alberta, Canada
• Cranford St Andrew, Northamptonshire, England
• Cranford St John, Northamptonshire, England

Cranford is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Cranford, New Jersey. The current Cranford station was built in the mid-1930s by the Central Railroad of New Jersey on an embankment as part of a grade crossing elimination project. Three stations preceded the current building. The station building has a ticket office, waiting area, and offices. The platforms are accessed by stairs and elevators.

Following the implementation of the Aldene Plan in 1967, the station served as the western terminus of the Cranford- Bayonne Shuttle. The station is the eastern-most station on the old main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey still serving as station. Like several other New Jersey Transit lines a once a week freight train can be seen in the early morning hours at Cranford station (which the plan has been currently scrapped due to NJ Transit train delay issues).

Cranford Station has been identified as a stop on the Union go bus expressway, a proposed bus rapid transit line utilizing the a portion of the abandoned Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) right-of-way between it and Midtown Station, a transit hub combining the NJT station and the former CNJ station in Elizabeth.

Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions. ( The Last Generation in England was also used as a source.)

The series was transmitted in five parts in the UK by BBC One in November and December 2007. In the United States, it was broadcast in three episodes by PBS as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series in May 2008.

Cranford returned with a two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford in 2009.