•  Paull, East Riding

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Paull like this:

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. ...

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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.

Paull through time

Paull is now part of East Riding of Yorkshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Riding of Yorkshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Paull itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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