The settlement sits atop the North Downs in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) near the villages of Hollingbourne, Detling, Bicknor (where the population is included for census purposes) and Wormshill and between the main A249 and B2163 roads connecting the towns of Sittingbourne and Maidstone.

A Parcelforce van allegedly used in the Securitas depot robbery was recovered from the car park of the Hook & Hatchet on 23 February 2006.

[9][10] This land was purchased by the trust in 1997 in order to preserve woodland, hedgerow and chalk grassland habitats and landscapes.

[10] A small radio transmitting station previously used by the military as part of the NATO ACE High relay communications system and more recently by mobile telephone companies is situated on farmland to the west of Hucking (51°17′45″N 0°36′51″E / 51.295947°N 0.614122°E / 51.295947; 0.614122) on account of its clear, unobstructed position high on the North Downs.

[11] However, despite the existence of mobile telephone technology at the transmitting station site, cellular network signal quality in the village remains poor.