POTTERS-PURY, a parish in the hundred of CLELEY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N. W.) from
Stony-Stratford, comprising the-hamlet of Yardley-Gobion,
and part of that of Old Stratford, and containing
1410 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarPO
age, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of
Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £8. 6., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty,
and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
Earl Bathurst. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.
There is a place of worship for Independents. The
old Roman Watling-street, and the Grand Junction
canal, pass through the parish, in which there is a
large manufactory for coarse earthenware.