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 Dorset, England, lying in the north-east of the county.- 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.
Bokerley Dyke
Historic site
Bokerley Dyke, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres long on Cranborne Chase in Dorset, partially running along the county's border with Hampshire between Woodyates and Martin.
Martin and Tidpit Downs
Grassland
Martin and Tidpit Downs is a 367.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Martin Down is a 341-hectare national nature reserve and an area of 115 hectares is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Bokerley Dyke, a prehistoric linear earthwork and scheduled monument, runs through the site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodyates and Sixpenny Handley.
Woodyates
Hamlet
Woodyates is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England.
Sixpenny Handley
Village
Sixpenny Handley or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase ten miles north east of Blandford Forum. Sixpenny Handley is situated 2½ miles west of Pentridge.
Boveridge
Hamlet
Boveridge is a hamlet in Dorset, England about 1 mile north of Cranborne, 12 miles south-west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, and 10 miles north-east of Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Boveridge is situated 2½ miles southeast of Pentridge.
Pentridge
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Pentridge, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Urdu: “پینٹرج”
- Welsh: “Pentridge”
- Welsh: “Pentwrch”
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