[2] The parish stretches from Chipstead Lake and the River Darent in the north through the hamlet of Dibden and A21 to Mill Bank Wood in the south.

Riverhead had a variety of country industries typical of the area, including a tannery, a timber yard, smithies and the posting house.

The economy was based mainly on agriculture, along with some gravel and sand quarrying to the north east of the village that created the lakes around Bradbourne which are now a wildfowl reserve.

The village has a butchers on The Square, Batchelors, a small, family-run business, providing its own spicy sausage from a South African recipe called 'Boerewors'.

[6] Shops on the White Hart Parade and London Road include a couple of boutiques, a small art gallery, restaurants, a dry cleaners, barber, and hairdressers.

The Barratt Lakeside Place estate, built on the former Marley Tiles site in the mid-1990s, sits pleasantly on the banks of Chipstead Lake.

Digital television has been available for aerials pointing east in Riverhead since 2006 from the Blue Bell Hill Transmitter for Kent & Sussex TV transmissions, which is also now broadcasting in HD.

Buses from Riverhead also connect the village to St Johns Hill, Sevenoaks (8) (452), Oak Lane, Kippington (8), Seal and Kemsing (452), Hildenborough(402), Tonbridge for Pembury Hospital[13] (402), Tunbridge Wells (402), and Westerham (401).