The parish includes the village of Ford and the hamlets of Upper Wraxall, Mountain Bower and The Shoe.

There was a Roman villa at Truckle Hill;[2] the site has been excavated on at least three occasions, firstly by one of the Scrope family of landowners in 1852 and most recently in 2010.

[4] The Domesday Book of 1086 states that the land was held by "Baldwin in the reign of King Edward prior to the Norman Conquest" and by "by Godfrey" afterwards; 32 households were recorded.

[5] The name of the community originated from Wroxall, derived from 'wroc' either meaning buzzard or a personal name, and 'healh' seen as an angle or corner.

[4] This was an agricultural area in the 1800s; the cloth industry was also important for a time and many of the buildings housed workers.