Paston, Northamptonshire

Description
Paston, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands near the G.N.R. and the M.R., 1 mile E of Walton station on the latter railway, and 2 1/2 miles N of Peterborough, and was known to the Saxons as Pastun. The parish contains also the hamlets of Gunthorpe, Dogsthorpe, and Walton, the last of which was transferred from Werrington in 1887. There is a post office at Dogsthorpe, under Peterborough ; money order and telegraph office, Milfield. The parish comprises 1832 acres; population of the civil parish, 405 ; of the ecclesiastical, 810. Paston Hall is a modern mansion belonging to the Pratt family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church consists of nave with side aisles, a chancel with a N aisle, a porch on the S, and a W tower and spire. The architecture is chiefly of the Perpendicular style, but the tower and spire are Early English, as are also the sedilia in the chancel. A few stones built into the walls indicate the existence at some time of Norman work. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Dogsthorpe. There are six small almshouses.