It belongs to the civil parish of Benenden and the Tunbridge Wells Borough District of Kent, in the South East of England.

[5] Iden Green's main street, Mill Street, was a Roman Road that connected Hastings to Maidstone, so the village began its main growth along a 'Roman thoroughfare' centred around the existing farmsteads of Eaglesden, Iden Green Farm and Yew Tree Farm; which had organically nestled themselves into the Wealden landscape with their far reaching views of the rolling valleys.

The Paved Ford in Iden Green is protected by the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as being of national and historic importance.

Richard Guldeford's official title was 'Richard Guildford of Hemsted in Benenden and Halden in Rolvenden' and he fought alongside Henry VII when he gained the Crown at Bosworth Field in 1485.

She is famed in a nursery rhyme as the one who found Lucy Locket's pocket (she lived at Babb's Farm) and was 'buried in her best ball-gown' in Benenden churchyard.

[15] The village is part of the Borough of Tunbridge Wells and is represented in Parliament by Katie Lam, Conservative MP for Weald of Kent.

Combined with faulting and watercourses cutting into the rock sequences, this has led to the smooth rolling uplands, plateaus and ridgelines, strongly incised by deep stream valleys (ghylls).

[19] The 1986 Census of the United Kingdom detailed that Iden Green had a population of 380, with it being largely a village of young families.

[20] The Woodcock Inn is the only pub in Iden Green itself and is a 17th-century traditional public house with an enclosed beer garden, located off Standen Street.

[21] The Iden Green recreational park contains a young children's playground and is used for village activities, such as fetes with live music and games of rounders.