Pury End
| Pury End | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 Careys Road, Pury End | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP709455 |
| Location: | 52°6’13"N, -0°57’58"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Towcester |
| Postcode: | NN12 |
| Dialling code: | 01327 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Daventry |
Pury End is a hamlet of approximately 100 houses in Northamptonshire, in the civil parish of Paulerspury, near Towcester.
The Grafton Way footpath crosses through the village and runs down Carey's Road. The population of the parish, including Pury End, Plumpton and Paulerspury, was 1,018 in the 2011 census.
Historically, the village is significant as the birthplace in 1761 of the missionary William Carey. The cottage of his birth no longer exists, but its site is marked by a stone memorial on Carey's Road, named after him.[1][2]
During Second World War, the small hamlet was hit by a stray bomb. Several houses were damaged – the Manor Farm, "Little Farm", the Bricklayers' Arms pub and the Primitive Methodist Chapel (now known as "Old Chapel Cottage").
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Pury End) |
References
- ↑ "Paulerspury: Pury End". http://www.thecareyexperience.co.uk/paulerspury.htm. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ↑ "William Carey's Historical Wall - Carey Road, Pury End, Northamptonshire, UK". Waymarking.com. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM8V98_William_Careys_Historical_Wall_Carey_Road_Pury_End_Northamptonshire_UK. Retrieved 9 July 2016. Includes image of memorial stone