Its other land is an approximately even mixture of woodland and agricultural fields including hay meadows for livestock feed and pasture.

Wickham Heath occupies the far west of the parish and has plantations of trees, such as conifers which are felled for pulp and wood products.

Speen has the frequently interrupted footpath marking the Ermin Way, the main Roman road from Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) to Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester).

[5] It is the burial place of Giovanni Battista Castiglione (1515–98), Elizabeth I's Italian tutor and servant, who was given the nearby Benham Valence house and park in 1570.

Some of the village people have seen an old woman with white hair and wearing a blue rain mac wandering around the grave yard and up the path the well is situated on.