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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Pentridge
Visit Pentridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Pentridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Pentridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Pentridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the English county of Dorset. It is situated on the edge of Cranborne Chase down a dead-end minor lane just south of the A354 road between Blandford Forum and Salisbury. 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 in the eighth century. When you visit Pentridge, Walkfo brings Pentridge places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Pentridge Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pentridge
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With 14 audio plaques & Pentridge places for you to explore in the Pentridge area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Pentridge places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Pentridge with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Pentridge places with Walkfo Pentridge to hear history at Pentridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pentridge has 14 places to visit in our interactive Pentridge map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Pentridge, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Pentridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pentridge & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 14 audio facts unique to Pentridge places in an interactive Pentridge map you can explore.”
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14 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Pentridge places to visit
Pentridge has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Pentridge’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Pentridge’s information audio spots:
Garston Wood
Garston Wood is a 34-hectare (84-acre) woodland nature reserve on the border between Dorset and Wiltshire in England. The reserve is owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to protect species living in the region.
Wor Barrow
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset. Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 described as “an important event in the study of British archaeology”
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery is a group of Bronze Age round barrows on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset.
Dorset Cursus
The Dorset Cursus is a Neolithic cursus monument that spans across 10 km (6¼ miles) of the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase in east Dorset. Its extreme length makes it a notable example of this class of linear earthwork; it is better interpreted as a pair of same-length cursus constructed end to end.
Martin Down Enclosure
The Martin Down Enclosure is an archaeological site on Martin Down, near the village of Martin, in Hampshire. It is near the boundaries with Dorset and Wiltshire. The enclosure is the original example of a type of prehistoric feature, the “Martin Down style enclosure”
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here Pentridge has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Pentridge plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Pentridge using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Pentridge plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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