Burton Pynsent

Burton Pynsent

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.0164
longitude= -2.8923
official_name=Burton Pynsent
population =
shire_district= South Somerset
shire_county = Somerset
region= South West England
constituency_westminster= Somerton and Frome
post_town=
postcode_district = TA10
postcode_area= TA
dial_code= 01458
os_grid_reference= ST375245

Burton Pynsent is a village in Somerset, England, situated six miles west of Somerton and ten miles east of Taunton in the South Somerset district. It is within the civil parish of Curry Rivel.

Burton Pynsent House was built around 1756 for William Pitt, after he inherited the estate from Sir William Pynsent. [cite web|url=http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,629/tab,history/Itemid,/|title=Burton Pynsent, Yeovil, England|work=Parks & Gardens UK|publisher=Parks and Gardens Data Services Limited (PGDS)|accessdate=2008-09-17] It formed part of a wing on a larger earlier house, that was demolished around 1805. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building. [cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=431249|title=Burton Pynsent House|work=Images of England |publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2008-07-05] The grounds were laid out in the mid 18th century by Lancelot Brown and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and include early 20th century formal gardens designed by Harold Peto. [cite web|url=http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=55167|title=Burton Pynsent|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=Somerset County Council|accessdate=2008-07-05]

The convert|140|ft|m|0|lk=on Pynsent Column (also known as the Curry Rivel Column, Burton Pynsent Monument, Pynsent Steeple or Cider Monumentcite book|last=Holt|first=Jonathan|title=Somerset Follies|publisher=Akeman Press|pages=76-77|isbn=9780954613877] ) stands on Troy Hill, a spur of high ground about 700m north-east of the house. It was designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown for Willim Pitt. [cite web|url=http://www.follytowers.com/curryrival.html|title=Curry Rivel Column (Burton Pysent)|publisher=Folly Towers|accessdate=2008-07-05] [cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=431251|title=Burton Pysent Monument |work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2008-07-05] It was restored in the 1990s by the John Paul Getty Trust] and English Heritage.

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