It lies between the villages of West Heslerton and Sherburn, at the interface between the Vale of Pickering to the north and the Yorkshire Wolds to the south.[2] A Neolithic barrow group lies on East Heslerton Brow at the top of the Wold escarpment.[8] The church was designed by George Edmund Street commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere House.They were originally intended for the northern porch of Bristol Cathedral but were thought too "papist" by the Dean and rejected.A regular Yorkshire Coastliner bus service providing connections to Scarborough, Malton, York and Leeds is operated by Transdev Blazefield.