Paulerspury, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Paulerspury, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near Watling Street, 2 miles N of the boundary with Bucks, 3½ SSE of Towcester station on the L. & N.W.R., and o½ SW of Roade. It has a post and money order office under Towcester; telegraph office, Towcester. The parish contains also the hamlet of Heathencote, and comprises 3038 acres; population, 1065. The parish council consists of eleven members. The manor, with Paulerspury Park, belongs to the Shedden family. Roman coins have been found. Pillow lace is made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £530 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and later styles; was partly rebuilt in 1844, partly restored in 1855, and thoroughly renovated in 1886; comprises nave, aisles, and a chancel with N chapel; and contains a piscina, veryfine sedilia,and an altar-tomb of the 14th century. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. Professor Bernard, D.D., famous as an astronomer, linguist, and critic, was born here in 1638, and William Carey, D.D., the celebrated Indian missionary, in 1761.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Pauler's-Pury St. James | |
Hundred | Cleley | |
Poor Law union | Potterspury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Paulerspury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pauler's-Pury (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Paulerspury are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: