The Pye Brook flows past the hamlet, with Peaton Bridge taking the Bouldon-Diddlebury lane across it.

A smaller hamlet called Peatonstrand lies further towards Bouldon at grid reference SO539845; it is partly situated in the valley of the Strand Brook and partly along the lane to Bouldon where the Strand has its confluence with the larger Pye Brook.

[2] During World War II some farm buildings in Peaton were transformed into a factory, producing fuel tanks for Stirling bombers.

[2] There are 6 weather-boarded houses at Peaton (called "Timber Cottages") and 4 at Peatonstrand, built in the 1950s by the Church Commissioners (who bought the Holder Estate in 1942).

[2] The only public transport provided currently in Peaton are buses to Ludlow in the morning, returning in the late afternoon.