Many of the few inhabitants are farmers, retired, or commute as far afield as London, Portsmouth or Brighton.

The Anglican parish church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, is built of local flint.

A listed walk and marked path is to the local summit at Bignor Post: this starts from Chichester Lodge (on the A29) in the south-west, proceeds through The Drove, New Barn and Parletts farms and finishes at Stammers Wood in the north-west.

Other paths scale the local slopes, including The Denture along part of the northern boundary which nearby joins the Monarch's Way through the hills.

The parish aside from its aged cluster has been kept mostly undeveloped; before the creation of the National Park, consistently new buildings, residential or commercial, have proven to be against applicable planning policies since the 1950s.