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» This article refers to the village in Dorset. For other uses of "Pentridge", see Pentridge (disambiguation).
Pentridge is a village in north east
Dorset,
England, situated on
Cranborne Chase on the
A354 road ten
miles north east of
Blandford Forum and ten miles south west of
Salisbury. The village has a
population of 215 (
2001). The name is
Celtic, meaning "hill of the wild boar", and its existence was recorded before the time of
Alfred the Great, as "Pentric".
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. Either side of the
hill are deep
valleys formed during the last
ice age.
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