It is on the A40 road with the Chiltern Hills to the east and the M40 motorway just to the south.

In 1971–73, the M40 Archaeological research group excavating a site at Postcombe found three Saxon graves, one of which was of a child.

A bronze buckle in one of the graves dated the burials to the 7th century.

[2] The village has a public house, England's Rose, that was formerly known as, The Feathers.

The current Lord of the Manor is Nigel Ross Parsons.