Standing about 160 feet (49 m) above sea level, the parish covers 1,420 acres (570 ha), and is in an agricultural region of fruit farming, hops and grain.

[citation needed] Queendown Warren, a nature reserve in the village, covers almost 200 acres (81 ha) and comprises distinct sections.

It has been open downland for many hundreds of years and has an internationally important community of grassland orchids.

The local wagoner and his men took down the house and moved it a few miles to its present location on Queendown Warren alongside the nature reserve.

[5] Hartlip parish church, named St. Michael and All Angels, is built of flint and has a peal of 6 bells.

It is at the lower end of Hollow Lane, whose name is reputed to come from a secret tunnel leading to it from the church.