The church has a rather strange memorial, all the 300 plus graves are laid out on a military styled plan which is framed in memory of Brigadier James Montague Carew-Hoblyn who died in 1905.

The village is centred around a large pond on chalk rock which is permeable and therefore dry the pond is a clay lined dew pond which provided water to the village before piping was installed.

Manor Farm is a rather attractively built building, with mediaeval parts and a Wesleyan meeting room that was built during the early part of the nineteenth century. There is a well here with a tree growing above it, and it is called Washers Pit and there are two tales that are connected to it. the first being of a  White Lady that is supposed to haunt the well and also the nearby road. The other though tells of how a cook from the nearby big house once had a prophetic dream and rode out to the well just in time to save a lady's life who was hanging from the tree, the lady was dress all in white!

Often the village is cut off during the winter as it a fair way off the high road from Shaftsbury to Blandford and it is a favourite spot for artists who come here to capture the stone buildings on canvas.

During the Second World War a young South African Air Force pilot lost his live while on a training flight and crashed int he corner of a field in an English village far from home and far from the horrors of war. He and five men of the village who lost their lives in the First World War are remembered here on the war memorial.

Two of the villagers a Edmund Kerley,  22, and a William Kerley ,husbandmen of Ashmore, Dorset, sailed with the Pilgrim Fathers on the Confidence  from Southampton April 11, 1638 with Master John Gibson.