Puddletown has a memorial, gates and a lantern above the entrance to St Mary’s churchyard to honour the fallen of the Great War. On the left-hand side by the gate is a small plaque which reads, “Sit mortuorum pietas lucerne vivis”- Let the devotion of those who died be a lantern unto the living.

It is difficult to imagine Puddletown as the centre of local commerce, but until the early 1900s it certainly was. There was a market here, plenty of shops and individual people trading from their homes.