Pentridge
- This article refers to the village in Dorset. For other uses of "Pentridge", see Pentridge (disambiguation).
| Pentridge | |
 Parish church of Saint Rumbold |
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  Pentridge Pentridge shown within Dorset | |
| OS grid reference | SU033178 |
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| Civil parish | Pentridge |
| District | North Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SALISBURY |
| Postcode district | SP5 |
| Dialling code | 01725 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | North Dorset |
Pentridge is a village in the English county of Dorset, lying in the northeast 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 southwest) and Salisbury (twelve miles to the northeast). As of 2001 it had a population of 215.
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.[1]
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
External links
Media related to Pentridge at Wikimedia Commons