Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PAUL, Paull, or Paghill

PAUL, Paull, or Paghill, a village, a township, and a parish in Patrington district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the Humber, 2½ miles S W by S of Hedon r. station, and 5 E S E of Hull; has a post-office under Hull; carries on a shrimp fishery; had a fort, builtby the royalists, at the siege of Hull in 1642; had also anextensive dock-yard, where several line-of-battle shipswere built during the French war; has now a fort and batteries, erected in 1866, in lieu of those erased at Hull; and has also a lighthouse, constructed in 1836, and showing a fixed light 36 feet high, and visible at the distance of 6 miles. The township comprises 3, 570 acres of land, and 5, 344 of water. Real property, £9, 843. Pop., 552. Houses, 125. The parish contains also the township of Thorngumbald, and comprises 10, 364 acres. Real property, £13, 322. Pop., 844. Houses, 191. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to A. Bannister, Esq. High Paul House is a chief residence. Paul-Holme, now a farm-house, retains a tower of a mansion of 1234. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Thorngumbald, in the diocese of York. Value, £200. Patron, the Earl of Effingham. The church is later English, cruciform, and good. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Paull AP/CP       Patrington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: PAGHILL     |     PAUL     |     PAULL     |     PAUL PAULL OR PAGHILL
Place: Paull

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