Pirton
Pirton is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.
Pirton is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 3 miles (5 km) north-west of the town of Hitchin, and adjoins the border with Bedfordshire. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,452.
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Worth seeing in and around Pirton
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of St Katharine, Ickleford
The Church of St Katharine of Alexandria is the Church of England parish church for Ickleford in Hertfordshire. It comes under the diocese of St Albans.
3.5 km · church in Ickleford, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Oughtonhead Lane
Oughtonhead Lane is a 0.9-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is North Hertfordshire District Council.
3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hitchin · Wikipedia - 03Knocking Hoe
Knocking Hoe is a 7.7-hectare National Nature Reserve and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Pegsdon in Bedfordshire. It is mentioned in A Nature Conservation Review.
1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 04Deacon Hill
Deacon Hill SSSI is a 35.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pegsdon in Bedfordshire. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it is part of the Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit nature reserve, managed by Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
3.3 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Pegsdon in Bedfordshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pirton
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 11 km · London Stansted (STN), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km
- London, Essex → Pirton53 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–8
- London → Pirton53 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Pirton121 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Pirton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pirton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt's a major hub for the budget airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air, and for charter flights by Tui.
From Wikivoyage: Luton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Pirton
Pirton is 47 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Shillingtonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Gravenhurstcivil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Icklefordvillage and civil parish in North Hertfordshire, England3.3 km
- Stondonvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK3.5 km
- Lower Stondonvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Upper Stondonvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.8 km