Next to the village is Bucks Woods which includes the site of the Iron Age hill fort at Peppercombe Castle.

[10] Hosted many child evacuees from London during World War 2, including actress Prunella Scales (as featured in the "Bristol & the West Country" episode of "Great Canal Journeys" tv series) The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Bochewis as the 2nd of the 27 Devonshire holdings of Theobald FitzBerner (fl.1086),[3] one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.

During the reign of King Edward II (1307-1327) Stephen de Wallen granted to Robert Stockey and his heirs that their tenement of Potesford and Bulkworthy should have a right-of-way for ever upon his land of Bokish and Wallen, for the purposes of carrying "sea-oar" (some type of mineral ore) and sand from the sea "with all carriages whatsoever", which deed was witnessed by Matthew Crawthorne, Joel Pollard, Gilbert Wibbery and Walter Beaple.

His near contemporary the Devonshire historian Risdon (d.1640) (whose grandfather lived nearby at Bableigh, Parkham[15]) stated of him: "Richard Cole, the last of that family that dwelt at Bokish, erected a harbour in his land, there to shelter ships and boats".

[1] This is now known as the Old Quay at Bucks Mills,[16] This structure was built after he had blasted out the rock with gunpowder to leave a sandy inlet known as "The Gut" or "Gutway".