On the north side is an area of residential housing, originally developed as a council estate in the 1950s.

It is first mentioned in a document dated AD 1140 which confirmed the grant of the estate to Christchurch Priory.

The manor included the hamlets of Bure, Chewton, Street, Stanpit, Hoburne and Clive (Highcliffe).

The 1st edition OS map shows a fishpond which may represent a medieval monastic feature.

After the war, contracts from the Admiralty and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment allowed the business to grow and Gardner's were soon employing around 300 people.

It presented mystically-themed plays, written by George Alexander Sullivan under his journalistic pen-name Alex Matthews.

Gerald Gardner, a retired colonial civil servant, joined them after moving to Highcliffe in 1938.