It contains two villages, Bucks Horn Oak and Holt Pound, as well as two hamlets, Wyck and Wheatley.

The history of Binsted from the 11th to 19th centuries is not documented, owing to its isolation and non-involvement in controversial activity.

At the time of the Domesday Survey, Binsted was listed as part of the Hundred of Netham as well as the Manor of Alton Westbrook.

A likely explanation is that the village remained a "simple agricultural community" and was not involved in any controversial activity, due to its isolation.

Binsted was recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales by John Marius Wilson in 1870.

[b] Five years later a school was built on land belonging to the Wickham Estate from stones brought from a pit near Semaphore House.

[4] The parish contains two hamlets; Wyck and Wheatley, and two villages; Bucks Horn Oak and Holt Pound.

The north chapel was altered in 1331, and in its churchyard is the grave of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the famous military commander in the Second World War,[8][9] who latterly lived in the parish at Isington Mill.

The house itself has a timber frame with a tiled roof, including a late medieval hall.