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West Woodyates
Woodyates is a Hamlet (place), hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England. History The name means "wood gates" and is believed to refer to the position of Woodyates at the entrance to the wooded area of Cranborne Chase.Charles George Harper, ''The Exeter Road: the Story of the West of England Highway'' (reprinted 2009)p. 96/ref> The topographer James Bell (geographical writer), James Bell described it thus in 1835: The Roman road (Ackling Dyke) is especially well preserved. In ''Highways and Byways in Dorset'' (1935), Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, Sir Frederick Treves notes that "In no part of Dorset can the actual undisturbed Roman road be seen at greater advantage or for greater extent than about Woodyates." A Romano-British defensive ditch called Bokerley Dyke also runs near the village. The estate contained an important coaching inn, once called the Woodyates Inn, later the Shaftesbury Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentridge
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. 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |