Pentridge Down
Pentridge Down is a nature reserve in Pentridge, East Dorset District, England. Pentridge Down is situated nearby to the locality Crockerton Hill, as well as near Bokerley Down.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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pentridge and Sixpenny Handley.
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.
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.
Pentridge Down
- Type: Nature reserve
- Categories: recreation area and grassland
- Location: Pentridge, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9568° or 50° 57′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.9445° or 1° 56′ 40″ westOpen location code
9C2WX344+P5OpenStreetMap ID
way 927296197OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=grassland
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