  sixpenny handley  or handley is a village and civil parish in north east dorset, england, situated on cranborne chase ten miles (16&nbsp;km) north east of blandford forum. in the 2011 census the parish had a population of 1,233. ==toponymy== the village name is derived from two medieval hundreds: "sexpena" and "hanlega", which by the 14th century were united as the hundred of "sexpenne et henle".royal commission on the ancient and historical monuments and constructions of england, (1975), an inventory of historical monuments in the county of dorset: east, page 64 the village was originally known as handley, or handley st mary.william white, (1879), notes and queries: volume 59, page 99. oxford university press the use of the name sixpenny handley to describe the village and parish is fairly modern, and was being used as an alternative name by the middle of the 19th century. ==history== on woodcutts common in the north of the parish (westnorthwest of the village) is the site of a 4 acre iron age and romano-british settlement, probably a farm. it was excavated by general pitt rivers in 1884â5. ===the great fire of handley 1892=== on 20 may 1892, the village
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