Pentridge

Other current and historical names

Pentric

Parish/Community: Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
District/Borough: East Dorset
County: Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°57'40"N 1°56'59"W
Eastings/Northings: 403622, 117992
OS Grid: SU036179
Mapcode Local: GBR 411.RTN
Mapcode Global: FRA 66TK.L7H

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Pentridge within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Pentridge in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Pentridge, par. and vil., Dorset, in NE. of co., 3½ miles NW. of Cranborne, 1704 ac., pop. 234.

Pentridge in the Domesday Book

A village in Cranborne hundred, in the county of Dorset.

- Overlord in 1066: Abbey of Glastonbury St Mary
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Wulfward White the noble
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: King William
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: King William
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 6 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 3 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Woodland: 1 mixed measure
- Pasture: 8 furlongs

British Place Names

Pentridge, Dorset

Pentridge is a village in Dorset

Pentridge in historic gazetteers

Pentridge in the Domesday Book