Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PASTON

PASTON, a village and a parish in Peterborough district, Northampton. The village stands near the Great Northern and the Midland railways, 1 mile E of Walton r. station, and 2½ N of Peterborough; and was known to the Saxons as Pastun. The parish contains also the hamlets of Gunthorpe, Walton, and Werrington; the last of which has a post-office under Peterborough. Acres, 3, 150. Real property, £7,032. Pop., 1,071. Houses, 241. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Peterborough and M. Cole, Esq. Paston Hall also belongs to Mr. Cole, but isoccupied by W. Jelly, Esq., M. D. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £644.* Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is later English, with transition-Norman and early English tower and spire; and comprises nave, aisles, and chancel. There are a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel at Werrington, a Primitive Methodist and a national school, alms-houses with £20 a year, and other charities £22, at Paston.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Paston CP/AP       Peterborough RegD/PLU       Northamptonshire AncC
Place names: PASTON     |     PASTUN
Place: Paston

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