Purton
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.Photo: Jim Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village near Lydney, Gloucestershire, England
- Also known as: “Purton, Lydney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Purton Hulks and Church of All Saints.
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.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Dave Bushell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 1½ miles northwest of Purton.
Lydney Town railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lydney Town railway station is a railway station on the Dean Forest Railway in Lydney in Gloucestershire. Lydney Town railway station is situated 2½ miles west of Purton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Etloe and Purton.
Purton
Village
Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Blakeney
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blakeney is a village in Gloucestershire, England. It in the parish of Awre and has views of the Forest of Dean. It was the site of a Roman villa, dating to 75 AD, and home to Thomas Sternhold, a groom of King Henry VIII's Robes.
Purton
- Category: locality
- Location: Lydney, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.73883° or 51° 44′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.47851° or 2° 28′ 43″ westElevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
9C3VPGQC+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5943276227OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Purton” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Purton, Lydney”
- Welsh: “Purton”
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