Notes

According to the Centre for Metropolitan History's Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516, "The 'new town' and market that appear briefly to have existed in Purbeck in 1286 was probably at Shotover, Dorset (q.v.) rather than at the later settlement of Newton.", and, under Shotover, "In January 1286 K Edw I attempted to establish a town at 'Gotowre super Mare' and in May of the same year granted the burgesses of the Nova Villa in Dorset the liberties of the citizens of London, as observed at Melcombe (CChR, 1257.1300, p. 337). The two places were evidently identical and 'Gotowre' probably corresponded to Shotover (surviving in the modern place-name Shotover Moor) on the boundary of Corfe and Studland, where the Claywell valley issues into Poole Harbour, rather than to the later settlement of Newton a mile away. The project appears to have failed almost immediately. See T.C. Walsh, 'Gotowre Super Mare: a new town in Dorset commissioned in 1286', Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset 34 (1996.2000), pp. 218.21." (http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/dorset.html, accessed on 17th August 2010).