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Human settlement in England

Pirton
St Mary's Church, Pirton
PirtonLocation within Hertfordshire
Population	1,274 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	TL147317
District	North Hertfordshire
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Hitchin
Postcode district	SG5
Dialling code	01462

Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England

UK Parliament	Hitchin and Harpenden
List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51°58′22″N 0°19′53″W / 51.97277°N 0.33148°W / 51.97277; -0.33148

Pirton is a large village and civil parish three miles northwest of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,274.

History

Pirton first appeared in official records in the Domesday Book in 1086 within the hundred of Hitchin. The village was then known as Peritone (meaning 'Homestead of Pears')

Notable buildings

The parish church, rebuilt in 1877, but with the remains of its 12th-century tower, is built within the bailey of a former castle, Toot Hill. There is also a Methodist church.

Pirton Grange, which was remodelled in the 18th century, is in the north of the parish, and is a particularly interesting, moated Elizabethan house with a timber-framed gatehouse. Hammonds Farm and Rectory Farm, with its tithe barn, are also Elizabethan.

Transport

The Icknield Way Path passes through the village on its 110-mile (180 km) journey from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk. The Icknield Way Trail, a multi-user route for walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists also passes through the village.

Education

There is a village school which teaches children from reception to Year 6. Many students continue on at Hitchin Priory.

References

^ "Pirton Parish". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1431/pirton/ Open Domesday Map: Pirton, Hertfordshire
A Foot on Three Daisies - Pirton's Story - Pirton Local History Group, 1987 ISBN 0-9512103-0-0
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) (1911). An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 161–165.

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St Albans (partly parished)	Colney Heath Harpenden Town Harpenden Rural London Colney Redbourn Sandridge St Michael St Stephen Wheathampstead
Three Rivers (partly parished)	Abbots Langley Batchworth Chorleywood Croxley Green Sarratt Watford Rural
Welwyn Hatfield (partly parished)	Ayot St Lawrence Ayot St Peter Essendon Hatfield North Mymms Northaw and Cuffley Welwyn Woolmer Green
Wholly unparished boroughs	Broxbourne Stevenage Watford
See also	List of places in Hertfordshire

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