The 17th century Manor House at Poxwell has stone mullioned windows and a lovely little porter's lodge over the gateway to the garden and has outlived the more modern church with round tower and unusual for Dorset a spire, was demolished in the 1970s. The house was built by the Henning's in a small copse that has a green hill behind. And the stone hatched cottages were built in 1843 and line the Weymouth road have been restored and this peaceful little village shows no sign of anything evil.

The village has an ornamental well but there is some argument over the name of the parish and village, whether it was Poxwell or Puck's Well or was it name after a tribesman called Poca who lived on the hill which leads to the second part of the name, 'swelle' is Old English for hill.

But just behind the village on the High Down, a group of Druids made human sacrifices around a stone circle  which was like a miniature Stonehenge with a diameter of only 14 feet.