Pentridge
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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. It is 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 south-west) and Salisbury (twelve miles to the northeast). In 2001 the parish 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".
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- UK place.official_name
- Pentridge
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Pentridge, parish church of St. Rumbold - geograph.org.uk - 521772.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Parish church of Saint Rumbold
- UK place.population
- 215
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU033178
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.post_town
- SALISBURY
- UK place.postcode_area
- SP
- UK place.postcode_district
- SP5
- UK place.dial_code
- 01725
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Dorset
- UK place.civil_parish
- Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
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- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 195
- Image
- Pentridge, parish church of St. Rumbold - geograph.org.uk - 521772.jpg
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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. It is 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 south-west) and Salisbury (twelve miles to the northeast). In 2001 the parish 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".
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pentridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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