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Mary Smith flees a crisis at home in Manchester to stay with spinster sisters, Deborah and Matty Jenkyns, in the small rural town of Cranford. A new young doctor, Frank Harrison, comes to Cranford to join Dr Morgan in his medical practice. Frank, young and a bachelor, is the talk of the town.

Cranford's reigning aristocrat, Lady Ludlow, plans her annual garden party with her trusted estate manager, Mr Carter. The Jenkyns are intrigued when the house across the street is let to a retired soldier, Captain Brown, his daughter Jessie and Jessie's ailing older sister. Deborah and Matty are riveted to see that he seems acquainted with another local aristocrat, Sir Charles Maulver, who engages the Captain in an unknown business proposal.