The village is in the Chiltern Hills on the border with Oxfordshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Stokenchurch.

The windmill was built around 1816 and is unusual in that it is a twelve-sided smock mill, still housing some of its original machinery.

The actress Hayley Mills and her film producer husband Roy Boulting owned the windmill and lived there in the early 1970s.

The common is an area of open access land and the standing stone (OS GR SU7507 9371) was erected for the Millennium -year 2000.

Ibstone is the name given to a hymn tune composed in 1875 by Maria C. Tiddeman (1837–1915), music professor in Oxford University.