Taston is about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the Akeman Street Roman road.

[5] At the centre of Taston are the base and broken shaft of a Medieval preaching cross.

[7] Middle Farmhouse is a house built of coursed rubble in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

The farmstead has a four-bay barn that was built of stone early in the 18th century and altered in 1884.

[10] At Thorsbrook Spring, about 140 yards (130 m) southeast of the preaching cross, is a Victorian Gothic Revival memorial fountain.