There are several small towns within the region, including: Cheshunt, Whitfield, King Valley, Edi, Claremont, Moyhu, Byrne, Docker and Oxley.

[1] The region has been used since the 1880s to grow a variety of crops, including hops and tobacco, alongside dairy and beef cattle production.

Following the end of World War II, a large number of Italian, Yugoslav and Spanish migrants settled in the area and established tobacco farms.

Following the decline of the tobacco industry in the mid-80s up to its demise in 2006 from government deregulation, local farmers turned to other crops, such as chestnuts, hops, berries, and grapes for wine production.

Chinese migrants came from the Victorian Goldfields in the mid-19th century and began careers as market gardeners, tobacco growers and merchants.