Pirton

Other current and historical names

Peritone

Built-Up Area: Pirton
Parish/Community: Pirton
District/Borough: North Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°58'21"N 0°19'53"W
Eastings/Northings: 514712, 231777
OS Grid: TL147317
Mapcode Local: GBR H5M.70K
Mapcode Global: VHGNK.6PM5

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Pirton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Pirton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Pirton.-- par. and vil., Herts, in N. of co.- par., 2761 ac., pop. 1125; vil., 3 miles NW. of Hitchin; P.O.

Pirton in the Domesday Book

A village in Hitchin hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Archbishop Stigand
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Archbishop of Canterbury Christ Church; Freemen, two
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ralph of Limésy
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: 1 Freeman (subinfeudated); 1 Englishman (subinfeudated); Ralph of Limésy
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £25 in 1066; £22 in 1070; £20 in 1086
- Households: 25 villagers; 29 smallholders; 12 cottagers; 10 slaves; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 6 lord's ploughs; 12 men's ploughs (20 plough lands)
- Meadow: 10 ploughs
- Woodland: 500 pigs
- Mills: 4, value £3 13/2½

British Place Names

Pirton, Hertfordshire

Pirton is a village in Hertfordshire

Pirton in historic gazetteers

Pirton in the Domesday Book