It shares a border with the parishes of Church Broughton, Hatton, Hilton, Marston on Dove, Sutton on the Hill, as well as Tutbury.

Primarily farming and pasture land throughout the parish outside the sparsely populated areas, there is little forestry throughout, mainly surrounding residences.

[6] Along the River Dove there are superficial deposits of alluvium comprising gravel, sand, silt and clay, being formed between 11,000 years ago and the present.

[7] In the middle of the area, the bedrock is from the Mercia Mudstone Group formed between 252.2 and 201.3 million years ago during the Triassic period.

North of the parish by the Sutton Brook, there are superficial glaciofluvial terrace deposits, of the Mid Pleistocene transition composed of sand and gravel, these being formed between 860 and 116 thousand years ago during the Quaternary period.

[11] Iron Age (800BC to 409AD) remnants include field boundary evidence,[12] and various examples of medieval 'ridge and furrow' farming found throughout.

[13][14] During an unknown medieval period, it is thought there was a village near Hoon Hay in the south, considered to be later depopulated.

[15][16] At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086 Hoon had two manors; one owned by Burton Abbey, after the Dissolution of the monasteries this was granted along with other lands by Henry VIII to Sir William Paget, which descended through marriage to the Scholfield family into the 20th century;[17][18][19] the other appears to be Hoon Hay manor,[20] which came under the ownership of Henry de Ferrers and was held by Saswalo (alias Sewallis), whose descendants took on the surname Shirley from Shirley, Derbyshire where they had their seat.

[24] The Nestle coffee processing plant has been historically based in neighbouring Hatton since the beginning of the 20th century, but from 2012 it expanded into the south west area of Hoon parish, the extension being officially opened in 2016.

[8] There is one residential location of architectural merit throughout the parish with statutory listed status at Grade II, Hoon Ridge, it was built in 1907 as an Arts & Crafts styled mansion, designed by the architect George Morley Eaton, a follower of Sir Edwin Lutyens.

The Salt Brook Heritage Trail runs through the south of the parish from Marston on Dove to Hatton and round the perimeter of the Nestle plant, highlighting the legacy of the local area with sculptures and history boards, it was opened in 2018.