The former municipality included the following towns: Grave (capital), Velp, Escharen and Gassel.

Grave, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Mill en Sint Hubert, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022.

Near to Grave lies a bridge, now called John S. Thompsonbrug, built in 1929.

The bridge was one of the key strategic points in Operation Market Garden; the city was liberated at 17 September 1944, suffering very little damage.

The bridge was named in 2004 after Lieutenant John S. Thompson of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division, who commanded the platoon of the 82nd Airborne Division that captured the bridge.