Pingjum (West Frisian: Penjum) is a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands and lies 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) southwest of Harlingen.

[4] Pingjum is a terp (artificial living hill) village from the early middle ages which developed on the Marneslenk in a grid structure.

[5] According to legend, the earliest settlers were shepherds from Drenthe who decided to build the terps and around 1100 added dikes for further protection against the sea.

In 1892 the province of Friesland decided to put an end to the Pingjumer Golden Collar coastal protection, although in several places the dike is still visible.

[8] This ring dyke was originally built in part to reclaim land from the Marne Estuary to the north of the village.