PAUL, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake
of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county of
YORK, comprising the chapelry of Thorn-Grumbald,
and the township of Paul, and containing 745 inhabitants,
of which number, 486 are in the township of Paul,
2 miles (S.W.) from Hedon. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and
diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £10. 0. 5.,
and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York. The
church, dedicated to St. Andrew and St. Mary, is a small
cruciform structure in the later English style. There is
a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists, with a Sunday
school attached. Here is an extensive dock-yard,
in which several ships of the line were built during the
late war.