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Piercebridge
Piercebridge is a County Durham village on the River Tees, known for the remains of a Roman bridge and fort where Dere Street crossed the river.
Pillichsdorf
Pillichsdorf, a market town of about 1,250 people in Bezirk Mistelbach, Lower Austria, in the Weinviertel; known for its Hallstatt-period princely tumulus (Kalvarienberg, ca. 650 BC), the 1878 Heger excavation, and the Battle of Wagram.
Pioneertown, California
Pioneertown, California: unincorporated Mojave Desert community near Yucca Valley, founded 1946 by Dick Curtis, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry investors as a working Western movie set; Mane Street, hundreds of productions, Pappy & Harriet's music venue.
Pirdop
Pirdop (Пирдоп) is a town in Sofia Province, western Bulgaria, administrative center of Pirdop municipality (6,789 residents, 2025), at 680 m elevation 80 km east of Sofia, known as Bulgaria's copper center with an Aurubis smelter founded in 1958 and the medieval Elenska Basilica nearby.
Pitney
Pitney, a village and parish near Langport in Somerset, England, site of a scheduled minor Romano-British villa ('The Pitney Villa') excavated by Samuel Hassell in 1828-9, occupied 3rd-4th centuries AD, and a Domesday manor held by Humphrey in 1086.
Pitrags
Pitrags (Pitrõg) is a Livonian Coast fishing village in Kurzeme, Latvia, within Slītere National Park. First recorded in 1582; 190 residents in 1826; Baptist prayer house built 1902; home of storyteller Marija Šaltjāre.
Planned community
Planned community: a settlement built to a comprehensive pre-arranged design, spanning company towns, Ebenezer Howard's garden cities (Letchworth 1903, Welwyn 1919), Britain's 32 post-1946 New Towns Act towns, US examples like Reston and Levittown, and England's 2026 seven-site new towns programme.
Pleshey
Pleshey is a village in central Essex, England, near Chelmsford, built within the earthworks of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle and planned medieval town enclosure, with a scheduled monument, fifteenth-century brick bridge, and 307 residents (2021).
Plymouth, Montserrat
Plymouth, Montserrat: the de jure capital of the British Overseas Territory, abandoned and buried after the Soufrière Hills Volcano eruption began in 1995; government now sits at Brades.
Podeni
Podeni: name of several Romanian places, chiefly a Cluj County village in Moldoveneşti commune attested in 1291 with 647 residents (2002); also a Mehedinți commune, a Vaslui village, a Roman road station, and a Miocene formation.
Pogost (погост)
A pogost (погост) was originally a fiscal and administrative district of the medieval Novgorod lands, later the enclosed church-and-cemetery precinct at the center of scattered villages in northern Russia.
Point Roberts, Washington
Point Roberts, Washington: a 5-square-mile American pene-exclave on the Tsawwassen Peninsula south of Vancouver, reachable by land only through Canada; created by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, dependent on Canadian utilities and tourism.
Pojejena de Sus
Pojejena de Sus is a village in Pojejena commune, Caraș-Severin, Romania, on the Danube; with Pojejena de Jos it forms modern Pojejena, near the Roman auxiliary fort and medieval fortress.
Połaniec
Połaniec, town in Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, at the Czarna-Vistula confluence. Chartered 1264; site of Kościuszko's 1794 Połaniec Proclamation; lost town rights 1869, regained 1980; home of Elektrownia Połaniec.
Porlock
Porlock is a village in Exmoor, West Somerset, England, Saxon 'the locked port'. Domesday 1086 records 15 households; Harold Godwinson burned it in 1052; the 1996 storm breach created Porlock Marsh lagoon.
Port Charlotte, Florida
Port Charlotte, Florida is an unincorporated CDP in Charlotte County, developed from the 1950s by GDC and the Mackle Brothers; 60,625 residents in 2020, aging population, heavy hurricane and flood exposure.
Port Fourchon, Louisiana
Port Fourchon, Louisiana: deepwater energy support port at the mouth of Bayou Lafourche, governed by the Greater Lafourche Port Commission (est. 1960), servicing over 95% of Gulf deepwater production and serving as LOOP's land base.
Port Isaac
Port Isaac (Porthysek) is a historic fishing village on the north Cornwall coast, first recorded in 1338, a Grade II conservation area of over 90 listed buildings, and the filming location of Doc Martin's Portwenn.
Port Protection, Alaska
Port Protection, Alaska: a tiny unincorporated census-designated place in Wooden Wheel Cove on northern Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest; population 36 (2020), floatplane-and-boat access only, fishing economy, setting of the National Geographic series.
Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight is a model village on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England, built from 1888 by William Lever to house workers at his Sunlight Soap factory.
Port-Sainte-Foy
Port-Sainte-Foy-et-Ponchapt, a Dordogne commune on the right bank of the Dordogne opposite Sainte-Foy-la-Grande; former deep-water river port of the 1255 bastide, with Gallo-Roman Canet mosaics, batellerie museum, Bergerac and Montravel wines.
Portlock, Alaska
Portlock, Alaska, also called Port Chatham, is an abandoned cannery village on the southern Kenai Peninsula, post office 1921-1950, abandoned around 1949-1951, later linked to the Nantiinaq Bigfoot legend but documented as declining after cannery closure and the completion of Alaska Route 1.
Portmeirion
Portmeirion is an Italianate visitor village on the Dwyryd Estuary, Gwynedd, North Wales, built by architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis from 1925 to 1976, famous as the filming location of The Prisoner and the namesake of Portmeirion pottery.
Potomac, Maryland
Potomac, Maryland: an unincorporated census-designated place in Montgomery County along the Potomac River near Great Falls and the C&O Canal; 47,018 residents (2020), median household income $236,675, governed by the 2002 Potomac Subregion Master Plan.
Povarovka
Povarovka (Поваровка), formerly Kirpehnen, is a village in Zelenogradsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, with a 10th-13th-century Prussian burial ground of 98 graves excavated 1989-1992, marking the shift from cremation to inhumation.
Pripyat (Прип'ять)
Pripyat (Прип'ять) is the abandoned Ukrainian satellite city of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, founded in 1970 and evacuated on 27 April 1986 after the Unit 4 accident; it lies uninhabited in the Exclusion Zone.
Prisovo
Prisovo (Присово), village in Veliko Tarnovo municipality, Bulgaria, and nearby Roman villa rustica (Pleiades 216944, BAtlas 22 C5), a 22.5 by 24 m farmhouse with hypocaust, excavated in 1961.
Prokhorovka
Prokhorovka (Прохоровка) names an early Sarmatian kurgan cemetery near an Orenburg village in the Southern Urals, eponym of the Prokhorovka culture (4th–2nd centuries BC), excavated by Rudenko in 1916 and Yablonsky in 2003–2005; also a Ukrainian Dnipro village and a Belgorod Oblast settlement.
Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas
Providing urban amenities to rural areas: a development strategy delivering health, education, water, power, and communications to villages, documented mainly through the Millennium Villages Project in Africa and its contested evaluations.
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: a North Slope census-designated place and site of the largest oil field in North America, discovered 1967-1968, producing since 1977 via the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, with deep permafrost and mostly transient oil workers.