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Pitney

Pitney is a village and parish in Somerset, England, located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Langport and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Somerton.

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The place

Pitney is a village and parish in Somerset, England, located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Langport and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Somerton. In 2011, the village had a population of 374. Pitney is home to St John the Baptist Church.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pitney

10 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.

  1. 01
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Muchelney

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Muchelney, Somerset, England, has Saxon origins, however the current building largely dates from the 15th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · church in Muchelney, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Muchelney Abbey

    Muchelney Abbey is an English Heritage property in the village of Muchelney in the Somerset Levels, England. The site consists of ruined walls showing the layout of the abbey buildings constructed from the 7th to 16th centuries, and the remaining intact Abbot's House.

    4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Low Ham Roman Villa

    The Low Ham Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa located near Low Ham in the civil parish of High Ham in the English county of Somerset. It is best known for the extraordinary figured mosaic depicting the story of Aeneas and Dido.

    1.3 km · Roman archaeological site in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church without dedication, High Ham

    The Church without dedication at Low Ham in the parish of High Ham, Somerset, England was formerly a private chapel to the manor. It stands on the site of an earlier church, and was started in the early 17th century, damaged in the English Civil War, and completed in 1690.

    1.7 km · church in Low Ham, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Hanging Chapel

    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. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    2.9 km · church in Langport, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Priest's House

    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.

    3.9 km · grade II listed historic house museum in Muchelney, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Huish Episcopi

    The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Huish Episcopi, Somerset, England, has 12th-century origins but was largely rebuilt in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    2.7 km · church in Huish Episcopi, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Town Hall

    Langport Town Hall is a municipal building in Bow Street in Langport, Somerset, England. The building is managed by Landmark Langport.

    3.2 km · building in Langport, South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of All Saints, Langport

    The Church of All Saints in Langport, Somerset, England, has 12th-century origins but was rebuilt in the late 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    3 km · church in Langport, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Andrew's Church

    The Church of Saint Andrew is an Anglican parish church located on Turnhill Road, in High Ham, Somerset, England. It shows evidence of 12th- and 14th-century building and was largely rebuilt in 1476.

    3.5 km · church in High Ham, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pitney

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 37 km · Cardiff (CWL), 54 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 169 km
Stations
Langport East railway halt, 2.8 km · Long Sutton and Pitney railway station, 1.6 km
  • Cardiff → Pitney
    53 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–15
  • London → Pitney
    191 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £19–26
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pitney
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pitney

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 Pitney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    112 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    132 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    527 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    527 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    562 km

If you know how people move in Pitney – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Pitney

Pitney is 47 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Somertontown in Somerset, England3.7 km
  • Langporttown and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Long Suttonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.5 km
  • Muchelneyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.9 km
  • Huish Episcopivillage in Somerset, England, UK2.4 km
  • High Hamvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.5 km