St Leonard's was built in 1895–7 by Lacy Ridge, with porches and the rock-faced tower added by Sir Aston Webb in 1923.

A community centre, The Ark, and parish council facilities involving a village housing scheme has been built adjacent to the recreation ground.

The area to the north of the cross-roads represents the major residential development in recent years while the older parts of the village, and in particular Lion Lane, have retained their historic character.

The club relocated from the Ark to Turners Hill Road in the early-1990s, opposite Tulleys Farm pumpkin fields.

The village is known as one of the hardest sections of the London to Brighton bike ride, perhaps second only to Ditchling Beacon, and every year causes severe congestion.

This is a disused quarry whose workings have left vertical sections in the sandstone making it a valuable resource for paeleoenvironmental research.

In 1992 Turners Hill entered into a Town Twinning relationship with St Leger en Yvelines in the Île-de-France region of France.