The district council (in this instance, mid-tier of local government) is the City and District of St Albans, named after the homonymous historic cathedral city, whose boundaries are contiguous with the village via neighbouring villages and hamlets.

Park Street joined the City Council rather than St Stephen civil parish.

The area has the physical divide from Park Street of a railway line bridge adjoining two fields and a wood leading down to increasingly riverside woodland in Park Street, which sits on the river Ver in the northwest.

[2] Burstone Manor Farm is a pretty farm with mainly plant nurseries and some fisheries between the village and Chiswell Green - it is at the higher Grade II* and is a much older timber frame building, some of it 12th century, the remainder of it 15th and 17th century with new casements and with a moat.,[3] between the housing estates and Burstone Manor Farm are the smaller remains of How Wood and the larger Birch Wood.

Moor Mill Quarry, West, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, is located on the other side of the railway line.