Sources:

and suggestions for further reading

• A D Mills The Place Names of Dorset Vol 1
  The English Place Name Society 1980
• A D Mills Dorset Place Names
  Countryside Books 1986
• Mate's Illustrated Guides Dorsetshire Illustrated
  Mate & Sons, Bournemouth 1898
• R Legg Purbeck's Heath
  Dorset Publishing 1987
• J C Mansel Kimmeridge and Smedmore
  Friary Press undated - probably 1962
• R Grant A Guide to the South Devon and Dorset Coast Paths
  Constable 1982
• P Ensom Geology
  Discover Dorset series, Dovecote Press 1998
• P Hyland Isle of Purpeck
  Discover Dorset series, Dovecote Press 1998