The village is located on the River Darent, flowing north down its valley from its source on the North Downs.
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The village is a key stopping-off point on the North Downs Way which runs through the village as it crosses the Darent Valley, intersecting the Darent Valley Path.
A timber mill at Karingal, Lilyvale, in the north of the Otford valley was established by Thomas James and his three brothers in 1875.
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Otford has few remaining services but retains a public primary school, railway station on the CityRail South Coast Line, a volunteer Rural Fire Brigade and a pie shop that also serves as tax agent.
St Michael's Preparatory School is a coeducational preparatory school in Otford.
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Polhill died aged 79 and is commemorated by a carved memorial in Otford Church by Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet.
On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).