The parish is situated on the top of the North Hampshire Downs near Walbury Hill and Combe Gibbet, overlooking the village of Inkpen and the valley of the River Kennet.

[1][2] Bronze Age people in this part of Europe constructed communal long barrows to bury their important dead and one is a scheduled monument in the civil parish beneath Gibbet Hill's peak.

Both male and female bodies of the dead may have been left in the open to be reduced to skeletons by carrion before being collected and buried.

It is unknown whether this was the case in the so-called Inkpen long barrow (named after the village to the north but within Combe), though it is on an east–west alignment.

Combe Gibbet stands on Gallows Down, in the civil parish between Inkpen and Walbury Hills.