Purton
Purton is a village on the east bank of the River Severn, 3 miles north of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Hinton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village near Berkeley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Purton, Berkeley” and “Purton, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Purton Hulks and Berkeley Arms, Purton.
Purton Hulks
Disaster remains
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Purton Hulks or Purton Ships' Graveyard is a number of abandoned boats and ships, deliberately beached beside the River Severn near Purton in Gloucestershire, England, to reinforce the river banks.
Berkeley Arms, Purton
Pub
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Berkeley Arms is a public house at Purton, Gloucestershire GL13 9HU. The pub is owned by the Berkeley Castle Estate, under whose ownership it has been closed seeking a new tenant since August 2020.
Cock Inn
Pub
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cock Inn is a pub, which is situated 2 miles northwest of Purton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purton and Etloe.
Purton
Hamlet
Photo: Jim Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton is a hamlet on the west bank of the River Severn, in the civil parish of Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. It lies opposite the village of Purton near Berkeley on the east bank of the river.
Vale of Berkeley
Locality
The Vale of Berkeley is an area in Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the River Severn and the Cotswold Edge, north of Bristol and south of Gloucester.
Purton
- Category: locality
- Location: Hinton, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.73573° or 51° 44′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.44866° or 2° 26′ 55″ westElevation
36 feet (11 metres)Open location code
9C3VPHP2+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 25032838OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Purton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Purton, Berkeley”
- Irish: “Purton”
- Polish: “Purton (Gloucestershire)”
- Polish: “Purton”
- Welsh: “Purton, Berkeley”
- Welsh: “Purton”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Purton”. Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.