It has a village hall, a park, a pub, a small church, a bus stop and a post box.

The ancient track called The Ridgeway crosses the low land to the east of the parish, running parallel with the River Rhee, which forms the north-east boundary.

The Great North Road skirts the parish on the west and forms its southwest boundary.

These included several human bodies, urns, paterae and other objects, with a Danish or Dutch coin.

Near the River Rhee in the north of the parish and not far from the camp at Arbury Banks or Harboro, and near the Ridgeway, a hoard of more than 500 Roman coins was discovered.

The medieval manor house Hinxworth Place is about half a mile southwest of the village.

Here she wrote her novels Flowers on the Grass (1949) and My Turn to Make the Tea (1951), the latter based on her experiences as a reporter working on the Hertfordshire Express in Hitchin.