It lies in the civil parish of Eaton-under-Heywood; nearby is the hamlet of Birtley.

The village barely qualifies as such since it possesses no public house, post office, shop or church.

The village holds a very traditional fete on the first Saturday of June each year.

The village and its community was transformed and brought bouncing back to life in the mid 1970s by the arrival of new families to the parish.

This was notably driven by the compassion of William and Judith Shaw, who loved family and village life and lived at Ticklerton Hall 1973–2008.