[1] Part of the shaft of a cross, probably dating from the late 10th or early 11th century, was found in 1939 when a house in the village was demolished.

The stone fragment has a cross-section a little under 30 centimetres (12 inches) square and is about 70 cm (27+1⁄2 in) high; its faces are embellished with vine-scroll, interlace and palmette ornament.

The farms at New House and Cole Street in the northeast of the parish date from settlement in the late 18th century, and in the southeast the waste was enclosed in 1804.

[7] The ward is part of the constituency of North Dorset, and is currently represented in the UK parliament by the Conservative Simon Hoare.

[15][16] The writer and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707–1754), who also founded the Bow Street Runners, lived in the manor house for three years, after inheriting it.