Pirton, Hertfordshire

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Pirton
Hertfordshire
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St Mary, Pirton
Location
Grid reference: TL145315
Location: 51°58’13"N, 0°20’5"W
Data
Postcode: SG5
Local Government

Pirton is a small village in Hertfordshire, three miles northwest of Hitchin and very close to the border with Bedfordshire. The church, rebuilt in 1877, but with the remains of its 12th-century tower, is built within the bailey of a former castle.

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.

It first appeared in official records in the Domesday Book in 1086, in which it is recorded as Peritone (from the Old English pera tun; 'Homestead of Pears')[1]

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References

  1. A Foot on Three Daisies - Pirton's Story - Pirton Local History Group, 1987 ISBN 0-9512103-0-0
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