Woodyates is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England.

[1] The topographer James Bell described it thus in 1835: WOODYATES (West), an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Wimborne-St-Giles, Shaston (East) division of the co. of Dorset.

"[3] A Romano-British defensive ditch called Bokerley Dyke also runs near the village.

It changed hands in the late 19th century and in the 1950s was the scene of many parties held by Margaret Chubham and her circle.

[1] This was a staging point of the Trafalgar Way (a modern confection), celebrating the 1805 journey by John Richards Lapenotière to bring the news to King George III of Nelson's victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar.