Pilton
Pilton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A361 road in the Mendip district, 3 miles south-west of Shepton Mallet and 6 miles east of Glastonbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 646 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Beardly Batch” and “Pilton, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Tithe Barn.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Pilton, Somerset, England, dates from the 11th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The present Norman and Medieval structure, may stand on the site of an earlier wattle and daub church built by the early missionaries.
Tithe Barn
Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tithe Barn at Cumhill Farm in Pilton, Somerset, England, was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn to hold produce for Glastonbury Abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Church of St Peter
Church
Photo: Peter Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church of St Peter in North Wootton, Somerset, England was built in the 14th or 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. Church of St Peter is situated 2 miles west of Pilton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Croscombe and Shepton Mallet.
Croscombe
Village
Photo: Sharon Loxton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croscombe is a village and civil parish 2 miles west of Shepton Mallet and 4 miles from Wells, in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated on the A371 road in the valley of the River Sheppey. Croscombe is situated 2 miles north of Pilton.
Shepton Mallet
Photo: Wurzeller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shepton Mallet is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England, some 16 miles southwest of Bath, 18 miles south of Bristol and five miles east of Wells.
Dinder
Village
Photo: Wehha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dinder is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of St Cuthbert Out, in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset. Dinder is situated 2½ miles north of Pilton.
Pilton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Pilton, Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.16574° or 51° 9′ 57″ northLongitude
-2.58647° or 2° 35′ 11″ westPopulation
646Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)Open location code
9C3V5C87+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 29674451OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640282Wikidata ID
Q1613147
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Pilton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pilton”
- Bengali: “পিল্টন”
- Catalan: “Pilton”
- Cebuano: “Pilton”
- Chinese: “Pilton”
- Chinese: “皮尔顿”
- Chinese: “皮爾頓”
- Danish: “Pilton”
- Dutch: “Pilton”
- French: “Pilton”
- German: “Pilton”
- Greek: “Πίλτον”
- Gujarati: “પિલ્ટન”
- Irish: “Pilton”
- Italian: “Pilton”
- Japanese: “ピルトン”
- Kannada: “ಪಿಲ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “필턴”
- Ladin: “Pilton (Somerset)”
- Ladin: “Pilton”
- Lithuanian: “Piltonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pilton (Somerset)”
- Persian: “پیلتون، سامرست”
- Polish: “Pilton”
- Portuguese: “Pilton”
- Russian: “Пилтон”
- Spanish: “Pilton (Somerset)”
- Spanish: “Pilton”
- Swedish: “Pilton, Somerset”
- Swedish: “Pilton”
- Tamil: “பில்டன்”
- Telugu: “పిల్టన్”
- Turkish: “Pilton, Somerset”
- Urdu: “پیلٹن”
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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 “Pilton”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.