Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary is a church in Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, England. Church of St Mary is situated nearby to Sixpenny Handley First School, as well as near the motorhome stopover Church Farm Campsite.Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “St Mary” and “St Mary’s Church, Sixpenny Handley”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wor Barrow and Garston Wood.
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 1 mile east of Church of St Mary.
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.
Church of St Andrew
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Andrew is situated 2 miles southwest of Church of St Mary.
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 2½ miles northeast of Church of St Mary.
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 east of Church of St Mary.
Church of St Mary
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.95516° or 50° 57′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.00767° or 2° 0′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C2VXX4R+3WOpenStreetMap ID
way 142490299OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q17537930
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