The village sits high in the westernmost chalk hills of the South Downs: maximum elevation 191 metres (627 feet) above sea level.

The original treble bell is retained in the tower, although retired from full-circle Change ringing, and is now hung for static chiming.

The restoration project was completed in the summer of 2022, and the bells first rang out in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

[3] Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran, Sir Winston Churchill's personal physician, is buried in the churchyard.

The older portion has two storeys of coursed stone blocks with brick dressings, plinth and band, and a long ridge slate roof.

The Victorian wing, of yellow brick, is of two storeys with a low pitched slate roof and sash windows.

Nearby, on a triangle of grass between Newton Lane and the track to Selborne Common, is a small sarsen stone.

A further two fenced acres were allotted to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor in trust ‘as a place of exercise and recreation for the inhabitants … of the neighbourhood’.

[9] Heal, Chris, Ropley's Legacy, The ridge enclosures, 1709 to 1850: Chawton, Farringdon, Medstead, Newton Valence and Ropley and the birth of Four Marks (Chattaway & Spottiswood, 2021)[7] Munby, Julian, edited, Domesday Book, 4, Hampshire (1086; Phillimore, Chichester 1982) The village features in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne.