Pentridge

Pentridge

Parish church of Saint Rumbold
Pentridge
Pentridge shown within Dorset
Population 215 2001
OS grid reference SU033178
Civil parish
  • Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SALISBURY
Postcode district SP5
Dialling code 01725
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the English county of Dorset, lying in the north-east of the county within the East Dorset administrative district. 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 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.[1]

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.[2]

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.

References

  1. ↑ "The East Dorset (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2015" (PDF). Lgbce. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 16. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.

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