Pitstone
Pitstone is a village and civil parish in east Buckinghamshire, England. It is at the foot of the central range of the Chiltern Hills, centred 6 miles east of Aylesbury and 5 miles south of Leighton Buzzard.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,670 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Pightelsthorn” and “Pitstone, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pitstone Windmill and College Lake nature reserve.
Pitstone Windmill
Windmill
Photo: Paul Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pitstone Windmill is a Grade II* listed windmill in England. It is thought to have been built in the early 17th century, and stands in the northeastern corner of a large field near the parish boundary of Ivinghoe and Pitstone in Buckinghamshire.
College Lake nature reserve
Nature reserve
College Lake is a 65 hectare nature reserve in a former chalk quarry in Pitstone in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. It is one of the flagship reserves of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, and it has an information centre, education facilities, a café, toilets and a shop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cooks Wharf and Barley End.
Cooks Wharf
Hamlet
Cooks Wharf is a hamlet in the parish of Cheddington, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located where the main road into Cheddington from Pitstone crosses the Grand Union Canal.
Barley End
Locality
Barley End is a hamlet within the parish of Pitstone in Buckinghamshire, England. Barley End is situated 2 miles southeast of Pitstone.
Horton
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Cole, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Horton is a hamlet in the parish of Ivinghoe, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Slapton. The name Horton is a common one in England. Horton is situated 2½ miles north of Pitstone.
Pitstone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Pitstone, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.83392° or 51° 50′ 2″ northLongitude
-0.64178° or 0° 38′ 30″ westPopulation
3,670Elevation
377 feet (115 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PT2Open location code
9C3XR9M5+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 602658023OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Pitstone” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيتستون”
- Basque: “Pitstone”
- Bengali: “পিটস্টোন”
- Bulgarian: “Пицтоне”
- Cebuano: “Pitstone”
- Chinese: “Pitstone”
- Chinese: “皮斯通”
- Dutch: “Pitstone”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيتستون”
- French: “Pitstone”
- German: “Pitstone”
- Gujarati: “પિટસ્ટોન”
- Irish: “Pitstone”
- Italian: “Pitstone”
- Japanese: “ピットストーン”
- Kannada: “ಪಿಟ್ಟೋನ್”
- Korean: “핏스톤”
- Ladin: “Pitstone”
- Lithuanian: “Pitstaunas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pitstone”
- Persian: “پیتستون”
- Polish: “Pitstone”
- Portuguese: “Pitstone”
- Russian: “Питстоун”
- Spanish: “Pitstone”
- Swedish: “Pitstone”
- Tamil: “பிட்ஸ்டோன்”
- Telugu: “పిట్స్టోన్”
- Turkish: “Pitstone”
- Urdu: “پیتسٹنی”
- Welsh: “Pitstone”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pitstone Green Museum and Pitstone Recreation Ground.
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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 “Pitstone”. Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.