Pirton is a large village and civil parish three miles northwest of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,274.[1]
History
Pirton first appeared in official records in the Domesday Book in 1086 within the hundred of Hitchin.[2] The village was then known as Peritone (meaning 'Homestead of Pears')[3]
Notable buildings
The parish church, rebuilt in 1877, but with the remains of its 12th-century tower, is built within the bailey of a former castle, Toot Hill.[4] There is also a Methodist church.
Pirton Grange, which was remodelled in the 18th century, is in the north of the parish, and is a particularly interesting, moated Elizabethan house with a timber-framed gatehouse. Hammonds Farm and Rectory Farm, with its tithe barn, are also Elizabethan.
