The parish is located on the northern slopes of the Weald, south-west of Tonbridge, and lies close to the borders of both East Sussex and Surrey.

The old High Street has Grade II listed cottages and village houses, and there is an inn called The Fountain.

After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, he was arrested and sentenced to death, but was reprieved, imprisoned in Dover Castle and died, in 1682, in the Tower of London.

It has the only remaining exterior combing decoration left in the south of England and is a Grade II listed building.

[5] Parts of the parish straddle the Kent Water which forms the border with East Sussex and Surrey where the three counties meet.

[citation needed] It is centred on the 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene with its slender, wooden shingled spire, bomb-damaged during World War II and since re-shingled.

Below them are 20th-century figures: a sailor, soldier, airman, a nurse, and others making up a representative group of people involved in World War II, all turned towards a Christ-figure whose protection they seek.

[7] The Queens Arms is a mid 19th century Grade II listed public house at Hartfield Road.