Pitney
Pitney is a village and parish in Somerset, England, located 2.5 miles east of Langport and 3 miles west of Somerton. In 2011, the village had a population of 374.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 353 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Pitney, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John Baptist, Pitney and The Hanging Chapel.
Church of St John Baptist, Pitney
Church
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church of St John Baptist in Pitney, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th and 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The Hanging Chapel
Historic building
Photo: Pam Goodey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Hanging Chapel, more formally known as the Chantry Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Langport, Somerset, England, is a 13th-century archway, bearing a Perpendicular building known as the hanging chapel. The Hanging Chapel is situated 2 miles southwest of Pitney.
The Priest’s House, Muchelney
Historic building
Photo: Celiakozlowski, CC BY 3.0.
The Priest's House is a National Trust-owned property in Muchelney, in the English county of Somerset. It has been designated as a grade I listed building. The Priest’s House, Muchelney is situated 2½ miles southwest of Pitney.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Low Ham and Huish Episcopi.
Low Ham
Hamlet
Photo: nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Low Ham is a village in the civil parish of High Ham in the English county of Somerset. At the time of the Domesday Book Low Ham was part of the estate of Serlo de Burcy, and was later known as Ham Burcy and Nether Ham.
Huish Episcopi
Village
Photo: Liz Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huish Episcopi is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the outskirts of Langport, 4 miles south west of Somerton. The parish has a population of 2,644, and includes the hamlets of Bowdens, Combe, Pibsbury and Wearne.
Langport
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Langport is a town of 3,600 people in the heart of Somerset in England. To the south of the town is Wet Moor, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which is part of the extensive grazing marsh grasslands and ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors.
Pitney
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Pitney, South Somerset, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.05153° or 51° 3′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.78874° or 2° 47′ 20″ westPopulation
353Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PI7Open location code
9C3V3626+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 583527734OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Pitney” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pitney”
- Chinese: “Pitney”
- Dutch: “Pitney”
- French: “Pitney”
- Irish: “Pitney”
- Ladin: “Pitney”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pitney”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitney”
- Norwegian: “Pitney”
- Persian: “پیتنی”
- Polish: “Pitney”
- Swedish: “Pitney”
- Turkish: “Pitney”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Pitney”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.