Place:Pentridge, Dorset, England

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NamePentridge
Alt namesPentricsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 95
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.959°N 1.954°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoCranborne Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Wimborne and Cranborne Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district 1894-1974
East Dorset District, Dorset, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2019
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Pentridge is a former civil parish and village, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the English county of Dorset. It is located in the northeast of the county within the East Dorset District and situated on the edge of Cranborne Chase down a dead-end minor lane just south of the A354 road between the towns of Blandford Forum (ten miles to the southwest) and Salisbury (twelve miles to the northeast). In the UK census of 2001 it had a population of 215. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2015 and merged with Sixpenny Handley to form "Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge". Pendridge itself absorbed the neighbouring parish of Woodyates in 1933.

The village name derives from the Celtic pen ("hill") and twrch ("boar"), and thus means "hill of the wild boar". Its existence was first recorded (as "Pentric") in the eighth century, eighty years before the birth of Alfred the Great.

The village is located amongst many Neolithic, Roman and Saxon earthworks, notably Bokerley Dyke, a long defensive ditch which was dug by the Romano-British to keep out the Saxon invaders.

Nearby is Pentridge Hill, formed by a band of more resistant chalk than the surrounding land.

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