Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of Sixpenny Handley parish is 1,210. We played it at our sixpenny concerts to the miners. On 5 October 1768 he married innkeeper's daughter Betty Beale at Sixpenny Handley parish church. Griffiths-Marsh wrote about his wartime experiences in his 1990 book "Sixpenny Soldier". It was in Sixpenny Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey. Sixpenny Handley falls within the electoral ward called 'Handley Vale'. It is from their price that they derived the nicknames, "Shilling Shockers" and "Sixpenny Shockers". Adjectival use of such coins used the ending -penny, as "sixpenny". For example, he started a sixpenny newspaper, "Young England", that ended after fourteen issues.