West of its generally narrow moor is the M25 London Orbital Motorway and the village is 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Heathrow Airport Terminal 5.

The locality gained its main barrier from what had always been its village in the early 1960s, a dual carriageway, and it hived off shortly after with the building of a community hall and establishment of its own residents' association.

[2] It sits on the part of the parish on strongly fertile, partly densely wooded, alluvial soil, whereas most of Stanwell was associated with the stony ground which makes up gravel deposits near to the surface of the soil, as throughout the area south of Heathrow Airport to the River Thames.

[2][3][4] Carlone Ltd, a private bus operator, runs route 442 half-hourly through the village between Heathrow Terminal 5 and Staines upon Thames town centre via Stanwell and Ashford.

The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%.