Its nearest town is Ringwood, which lies approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south from the hamlet.

The 17th century manor house was once the home of Dame Alice Lisle, the last lady to be publicly beheaded in England following a judicial trial.

[8] The manor stayed in the Botreaux family until the late 15th century when it was sold to Robert White.

[8] Alice Lisle, widow of John Lisle the regicide, continued to live at Moyles Court after her husband's assassination in 1664, until her own notorious trial and death by beheading in the market-place at Winchester in 1685 after the failure of the Monmouth Rebellion.

[8] In the middle of the 19th century Edward Hayles Taylor sold Rockford to Henry Baring of Somerley, from whom it was purchased by John Coventry of Burgate Manor.