diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 54094e90..500125b4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.8
 Other changes:
 
 - Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3.
+- Dropped `psycopg1` module.
 
 
 What's new in psycopg 2.7.4
diff --git a/lib/psycopg1.py b/lib/psycopg1.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ee79422..00000000
--- a/lib/psycopg1.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-"""psycopg 1.1.x compatibility module
-
-This module uses the new style connection and cursor types to build a psycopg
-1.1.1.x compatibility layer. It should be considered a temporary hack to run
-old code while porting to psycopg 2. Import it as follows::
-
-    from psycopg2 import psycopg1 as psycopg
-"""
-# psycopg/psycopg1.py - psycopg 1.1.x compatibility module
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Federico Di Gregorio  <fog@debian.org>
-#
-# psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
-# by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
-# permission to link this program with the OpenSSL library (or with
-# modified versions of OpenSSL that use the same license as OpenSSL),
-# and distribute linked combinations including the two.
-#
-# You must obey the GNU Lesser General Public License in all respects for
-# all of the code used other than OpenSSL.
-#
-# psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
-# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
-# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public
-# License for more details.
-
-from psycopg2 import _psycopg as _2psycopg   # noqa
-from psycopg2.extensions import cursor as _2cursor
-from psycopg2.extensions import connection as _2connection
-
-from psycopg2 import *      # noqa
-from psycopg2 import extensions as _ext
-_2connect = connect
-
-
-def connect(*args, **kwargs):
-    """connect(dsn, ...) -> new psycopg 1.1.x compatible connection object"""
-    kwargs['connection_factory'] = connection
-    conn = _2connect(*args, **kwargs)
-    conn.set_isolation_level(_ext.ISOLATION_LEVEL_READ_COMMITTED)
-    return conn
-
-
-class connection(_2connection):
-    """psycopg 1.1.x connection."""
-
-    def cursor(self):
-        """cursor() -> new psycopg 1.1.x compatible cursor object"""
-        return _2connection.cursor(self, cursor_factory=cursor)
-
-    def autocommit(self, on_off=1):
-        """autocommit(on_off=1) -> switch autocommit on (1) or off (0)"""
-        if on_off > 0:
-            self.set_isolation_level(_ext.ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)
-        else:
-            self.set_isolation_level(_ext.ISOLATION_LEVEL_READ_COMMITTED)
-
-
-class cursor(_2cursor):
-    """psycopg 1.1.x cursor.
-
-    Note that this cursor implements the exact procedure used by psycopg 1 to
-    build dictionaries out of result rows. The DictCursor in the
-    psycopg.extras modules implements a much better and faster algorithm.
-    """
-
-    def __build_dict(self, row):
-        res = {}
-        for i in range(len(self.description)):
-            res[self.description[i][0]] = row[i]
-        return res
-
-    def dictfetchone(self):
-        row = _2cursor.fetchone(self)
-        if row:
-            return self.__build_dict(row)
-        else:
-            return row
-
-    def dictfetchmany(self, size):
-        res = []
-        rows = _2cursor.fetchmany(self, size)
-        for row in rows:
-            res.append(self.__build_dict(row))
-        return res
-
-    def dictfetchall(self):
-        res = []
-        rows = _2cursor.fetchall(self)
-        for row in rows:
-            res.append(self.__build_dict(row))
-        return res
diff --git a/psycopg2.cproj b/psycopg2.cproj
index f6f85c72..a1ca2a94 100644
--- a/psycopg2.cproj
+++ b/psycopg2.cproj
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
     <None Include="lib\extras.py" />
     <None Include="lib\__init__.py" />
     <None Include="lib\pool.py" />
-    <None Include="lib\psycopg1.py" />
     <None Include="lib\tz.py" />
     <None Include="psycopg\adapter_asis.h" />
     <None Include="psycopg\adapter_binary.h" />