The key route through the parish is the A619 road from Chesterfield through to Baslow, for access to the Peak District, running through the west portion of the area.

Primarily farming and pasture land throughout the parish outside the populated areas, there is some forestry throughout, mainly at Linacre Park which is a collection of named woods north of Old Brampton village surrounding a trio of former reservoirs.

[5] Being partly within the Peak District National Park, the composition of the parish is broadly similar, with clay, coal, limestone, and gritstone featuring in the geology of the wider area.

It rises through mudstones, sandstones and siltstone, making up the Pennine Lower Coal Measures Group formed between 319 and 318 million years ago during the Carboniferous period.

[6] The East Moor area additionally has peat which is a sedimentary superficial deposit formed between 2.588 million years ago and the present during the Quaternary period.

[14][15] Later monuments include a number of barrows such as Stone Low in East Moor which shows human activity in the Bronze Age from 2350BC.

[22] The Domesday survey reported three manors in Brampton in 1086 AD, the Derbyshire tenants-in-chief Ascoit (or Hascoit) Musard and Walter D'Aincourt owning two, and the third respectively.

[40] The parish in those times was more extensive than now; the boundary being only half a mile away from Chesterfield centre, terminating by what is now West Bars and following the River Hipper to also encompass Holy Moor, along with the settlements of Upper and Nether Loads as well as Holymoorside.

Until the mid-18th century, the area west of Chesterfield comprised a rural location of dispersed farms, hamlets and open fields with no large groupings of residents.

[43] From the latter half of the 18th century with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, businesses began to build on the banks of the River Hipper close to Chesterfield.

Local raw materials being readily available including coal, iron, clay and a supply of water providing good conditions for development.

Other new concerns included tobacco manufacturing, woollen cloth production, bobbin making, brewing pillbox making and lint manufacture, the last two owned by the Robinson family, who steadily expanded their business on the Wheatbridge site adjacent to the former Griffin Works and eventually absorbed the Bump Mill site and business.

[49] Predictably, a number of public houses, inns and taverns sprang up to cater to this burgeoning population, and this developed into the modern day 'Brampton Mile', eventually growing to around 20 of these establishments spread across this distance.

[52][53] Additional exchanges occurred in April 1988 with Upper Newbold/Four Lane Ends being added to Brampton, but a loss of the Loundsley Green area to Chesterfield.

[54] The notorious Pottery Cottage murders took place in Eastmoor during 1977, when a fugitive fleeing from the authorities held a family hostage at a local farm over several days.

There are 37 locations of architectural merit throughout the parish with listed status, the majority at Grade II, including notably:[69] and comprising a range of varied buildings and structures such as halls, chapels, cottages, farmhouses, barns and other agricultural outbuildings, and guide posts.

There are four conservation areas of special architectural or historic interest, in the parish, at Cutthorpe, Old Brampton, Pratt Hall and Wadshelf offering protection from inappropriate development to much of the core of those villages.