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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bokerley Dyke and Martin and Tidpit Downs.
Bokerley Dyke
Historic site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Garston Wood
Nature reserve
Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 Sixpenny Handley and Bowerchalke.
Sixpenny Handley
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 2 miles southwest of Pentridge.
Bowerchalke
Village
Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire. Bowerchalke is situated 3 miles north of Pentridge.
Pentridge
- Type: Locality
- Location: East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9679° or 50° 58′ 4″ northLongitude
-1.9586° or 1° 57′ 31″ westElevation
351 feet (107 metres)Open location code
9C2WX29R+4HGeoNames ID
7291555
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