Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENTRIDGE

PENTRIDGE, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on Bockerly-ditch, adjacent to Wilts, 3½ miles N N W of Cranborne, and 9 S of Dinton r. station. It contains the hamlet of East Woodyates; and its post town is Cranborne, under Salisbury. Acres, 1, 764. Real property, £2, 125. Pop., 295. Houses, 56. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £214.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1857.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Pentridge CP/AP       Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Pentridge

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