Pilning

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Pilning is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, near Redwick and Severn Beach. It sits close to the M4, M49 and A403, and the South Wales Main Line runs through it with a small station. The civil parish is called Pilning and Severn Beach, and there is an electoral ward with the same name. The population at the 2011 census was 3,647.

Nearby, the Severn Tunnel opened in 1885 and the Second Severn Crossing opened in 1996. Pilning has St Peters Primary School, a shop, a doctor's surgery, and pubs including The King's Arms and The Plough Inn, which hosts a jazz night on the first Sunday of every month. Pilning Cricket Club began in 1883.

The parish church is St Peter, completed in 1855 and designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt; it is a Grade II listed building. There is also St Mary's Indian Orthodox Church in the village.

Pilning used to have an annual Carnival and a drama group called The Village Players; in Christmas 2015 they staged a pantomime called "Mother Goose." The railway station is about a mile east of the village. As of 2023, only two eastbound trains per week serve the station due to the footbridge being removed during electrification works on the Great Western Main Line.

Bus route 12, run hourly by Stagecoach West, connects Stoke Gifford (for Bristol Parkway) with Severn Beach.