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Pitney is a village and parish in Somerset, England, located east of Langport and west of Somerton in the South Somerset district. In 2011, the village had a population of 374.〔 Pitney is home to St John the Baptist Church, the Pitney Farm Shop, and the ''Halfway House'', selected as England's Pub of the Year in 1996 by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale). ==History== The name means "Pytta's place" from Pytta the Saxon, however there is evidence of much earlier occupation from a Bronze Age sword dating from 200 BC found on Pitney Moor. It was recorded in the Domesday book as ''Petenie'' supporting the alternative meaning of 'the traversing stream' from the Old English ''pæþþan'' and ''ea''. Several significant archaeological finds have been made at Pitney, including the remains of a Roman villa (roof tiles, pottery, and mosaic) uncovered in the 19th century,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Romano-British Villa — Pitney, Somerset )〕 and the Pitney brooch, a Saxon cast bronze openwork brooch, modelled after a late Viking design and now in the British Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Pitney Brooch )〕 The medieval manors originated in grants made to Richard Rivel (of Curry Rivel) from the Royal manor of Somerton between 1190 and 1003. The parish was part of the Pitney Hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ )〕 Pitney Warne manor was granted to the Compton family in 1610 and split up and sold by their descendant the Duke of Devonshire in 1919. The lesser manor of Pitney Lortie was held by the Pyne family;〔 the manor house may be the building now known as The Old Court, which has its origins prior to the 16th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 The 1848 publication, ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pisford — Playford, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 573–76. )〕 describes Pitney as an agricultural village of 465 people and writes of the Roman villa:
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