Pinvin
| Pinvin | |
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 Crossroads at Pinvin |
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 Pinvin
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| Pinvin shown within Worcestershire | |
| OS grid reference | SO955489 |
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| 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 |
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 and is the location of Pershore railway station. It lies on the crossroads of the A44, A4104 and B4082. It has a first school and a middle school (both rated Good by Ofsted), church, a village hall housing the pre-school, a grocery store and a pub.
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.
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