The word tūn originally meant "fence", but came to mean "enclosure" or "homestead".

In 1873–76 the body of the Mediæval chapel was dismantled and re-erected in Powerstock as an extension to the parish school.

This was built about 1500 and is now both a Scheduled Ancient Monument[7] and a Grade II* listed building.

The mill was the home of the writer and broadcaster Kenneth Allsop until his death in 1973.

Here he wrote In the Country, a collection of essays mostly about the surrounding Dorset countryside.