» This article refers to the village in Dorset. For other uses of "Pentridge", see Pentridge (disambiguation). Pentridge is a village (technically, a hamlet) in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase on the A354 road ten miles north east of Blandford Forum and twelve miles south west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 215 . 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 villag… (More on Pentridge)