 The coast here is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.In the Domesday Book of 1086 the estate here was recorded as "Bessintone"; it had twenty households and was owned by a Roger Arundel.The majority of the present houses in West Bexington were built between 1919 and 1939, on plots of farmland which had been sold due to the land becoming agriculturally derelict.