Page "Pill, Somerset" Paragraph 6

The small rowed ferry from Pill to Shirehampton closed because of loss of trade once the opening of the Avonmouth Bridge in 1974 enabled pedestrians to walk over the Avon.

Few did of course, but some rode their bicycles and many more turned to their cars.

So a transport link to and from the parish of Easton-in-Gordano, one that had survived since Medieval times, was closed and the river mud has swallowed up most of the now unattended slipways.

The village and its vanished ferry are commemorated in the Adge Cutler and The Wurzels song " Pill Pill ".