Pentridge Down

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Pentridge Down is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, covering 0.62 km². The county has 124 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. It lies inside Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

For more of the same, Cranborne Chase and Bowerchalke Downs are close by. The nearest railway station is Tisbury, about 13.9 km to the north-west.

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