Another 18th-century mill at Efford lies on the border of the parish with Pennington.
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In 1537 the estate was granted to Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter and his wife Gertrude.
In the meantime, a small group of British soldiers, led by Sir Nigel Loring, Alleyne Loring and John Hordle, formerly of the Special Air Service, are on their way to Portland, having left England by sailing ship after freeing Sir Nigel from his imprisonment that was imposed by King Charles III.
The village achieved some notoriety in the 1880s when Mary Ann Girling and her religious sect of New Forest Shakers erected tents at a farm at Tiptoe in 1879, having been evicted from their previous residence at Forest Lodge at Hordle.