Dorset
East Dorset District
Pentridge

Pentridge

Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of , England, lying in the north-east of the county.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 215 residents
  • Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Pentridge, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Rumbold and Bokerley Dyke.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Historic site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres long on in , partially running along the county's border with between and .

Grassland
is a 367.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of in . Martin Down is a 341-hectare national nature reserve and an area of 115 hectares is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. , a prehistoric linear earthwork and scheduled monument, runs through the site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodyates and Sixpenny Handley.

Hamlet
Photo: Paul Billington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of , near its border with , in the west of England.

Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of and Pentridge, in north east , England, situated on ten miles north east of . is situated 2½ miles west of Pentridge.

Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , England about 1 mile north of Cranborne, 12 miles south-west of , , and 10 miles north-east of , Dorset. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Pentridge.

Pentridge

Latitude
50.96024° or 50° 57′ 37″ north
Longitude
-1.95224° or 1° 57′ 8″ west
Population
215
Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)
Open location code
9C2WX26X+34
Open­Street­Map ID
node 15956920
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2640394
Wiki­data ID
Q1770564
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Pentridge” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Пентридге”
  • Cebuano: “Pentridge”
  • Chinese: “Pentridge”
  • Dutch: “Pentridge”
  • French: “Pentridge”
  • Irish: “Pentridge”
  • Italian: “Pentridge”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pentridge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pentridge”
  • Norwegian: “Pentridge”
  • Persian: “پنتریج”
  • Polish: “Pentridge”
  • Swedish: “Pentridge”
  • Welsh: “Pentridge”
  • Welsh: “Pentwrch”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Pentridge Down and Pentridge Hill - Penbury Knoll.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pentridge”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.