Pinvin

Pinvin
Crossroads at Pinvin
Pinvin  Pinvin shown within Worcestershire
OS grid reference	SO955489
District	Wychavon
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PERSHORE
Postcode district	WR10
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
List of places UK England Worcestershire

Coordinates: 52°08′18″N 2°04′02″W / 52.13844°N 2.067146°W

Pinvin is a village in Worcestershire, England, a little to the north of Pershore, about 7 ¹⁄₂ miles (12.1 km) south-east of Worcester, and about 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Evesham^[1] and is the location of Pershore railway station. The name is thought to come from 'Penda's fen' after the Mercian King Penda. David Rudkin's TV play Penda's Fen (1974) was set here. In that award-winning film, which was originally commissioned and screened as part of the Play for Today series, there is a strong reference to the origins of the place name in a scene where a local workman is painting a road closure sign. He paints "PINFIN" and is verbally corrected by the boy who is the chief character. The suggestion is that the road sign painter knows the origin of the name and may be one of the local followers of the Old Religion. The boy subsequently discovers that the name was formerly Pinfin, and Penda's Fen from a book in his father's library.

A British Rail Class 166 at Pershore railway station.

References

1. Pinvin Parish Council’s Web Site accessed 2011-02-24.

External links

• Pinvin Parish Council