most of the civil parish is agricultural, with fox covert, old covert, ladyacre wood and several smaller areas of woodland, as well as numerous scattered small meres and ponds. ankersplatt brook forms part of the north-western boundary; bankside brook runs in the north of the parish, also forming a short stretch of the north-eastern boundary; and a tributary of crowton brook forms part of the south-eastern boundary. the terrain slopes gently from a high point of around 65 metres at , near fields farm, to low points of around 40 metres in the north of the parish and of around 50 metres at the south-western boundary.