Sessions Gate
Sessions Gate is a locality in Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, England. Sessions Gate is situated nearby to the locality Captain’s Wood, as well as near Buck’s Stile.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garston Wood and Wor Barrow.
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.
Wor Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile east of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument. Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 has been described as "an important event in the study of British archaeology". Wor Barrow is situated 1½ miles southeast of Sessions Gate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sixpenny Handley and Woodyates.
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.
Woodyates
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Billington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 2 miles east of Sessions Gate.
Pentridge
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 southeast of Sessions Gate.
Sessions Gate
Latitude
50.97421° or 50° 58′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.00464° or 2° 0′ 17″ westOpen location code
9C2VXXFW+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 8603338419OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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