Pailton, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Pailton, a village and a township in Monks Kirby parish, Warwickshire. The village stands 2½ miles NE of Brinklow station on the Trent Valley section of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 NNW of Rugby. It has a post and money order office under Rugby; telegraph office, Monks Kirby. The township comprises 1756 acres; population, 493. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Pailton House is the chief residence. A chapel of ease was built in 1884. There are reading and news rooms and a Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Civil parish | Monks Kirby | |
| Hundred | Knightlow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Pailton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Paitton, or Pailton)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Pailton 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 Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.