Sixpenny Handley
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.- Type: Village with 906 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Sixpenny Handley, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Garston Wood.
Garston Wood
Nature reserve
Garston Wood is a 34-hectare woodland nature reserve in Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England, near the boundary with Wiltshire. It is at grid reference SU004190, around 15 km SE of Shaftesbury and around 3 km north of the village of Sixpenny Handley, owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to protect species living in the region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pentridge and Woodyates.
Pentridge
Hamlet
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. Pentridge is situated 2½ miles east of 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. Woodyates is situated 2½ miles northeast of Sixpenny Handley.
Gussage St Michael
Village
Gussage Saint Michael is a small village in Dorset, in the south of England. At the 2001 census, the village had a population of 219. Gussage St Michael is tucked off the main A354 as it runs through the Cranborne Chase, ten miles from Blandford Forum and fourteen miles from Salisbury. Gussage St Michael is situated 3½ miles south of Sixpenny Handley.
Sixpenny Handley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.95342° or 50° 57′ 12″ north
Longitude
-2.00392° or 2° 0′ 14″ west
Population
906
Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)
Open location code
9C2VXX3W+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Sixpenny Handley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Chinese: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Dutch: “Sixpenny Handley”
- French: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Irish: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Italian: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Persian: “سیکسپنی هنلی”
- Polish: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Spanish: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Swedish: “Sixpenny Handley”
- Urdu: “سکس پینی ہینڈلے”
- Welsh: “Sixpenny Handley”
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