1) Hamlet in Dorset 
Woodyates is a small hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England. ==History== The name means `wood gates` and is believed to refer to the position of Woodyates at the entrance to the wooded area of Cranborne Chase. The topographer James Bell described it thus in 1835 - T.....