Amber Hill covers an area of approximately 5,500 acres and according to some is so called due to the amber-like gravel upon which the village stands.
Records show that in 1881 the inhabitants numbered 607 with 529 in 1911, with the 2001 census indicating that there were 106 households with 268 residents. The present adult population is 250.
Up until 1880 Amber Hill had been part of Holland Fen’s ecclesiastical parish, and included Algarkirk fen allotment, Sutterton fen allotment and a detached part of Dogdyke. On the 20th December 1880 Amber Hill, an extra-parochial area, was formed as a new civil parish.
In more recent times, local facilities such as the number of phone boxes, the post office and shop have all closed, and even the Methodist Chapel and Anglican Church, St John the Baptist are no longer used as placed of worship, since being converted to residential properties. The Wesleyan Methodist's had a chapel build here in 1846, rebuilt in 1877 and the Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1892. At one time there used to be six public houses in the village, mainly to serve farm workers who used to harvest cereal crops by hand, which was very thirsty work. Now all the pubs are closed or demolished.
- The central focus in the village of Amber Hill and area of regeneration is the cluster of houses on Sutterton Drove situated around the primary school and the newly developed playing field. There are a variety of successful small businesses showing off the talents of residents in the area such as a dog training centre, riding stables, a turkey farm, garden machinery centre and several plant nurseries.
Amber Hill is located 7 miles north-west of Boston and on average is seven feet above sea level. The 5500 acres of Amber Hill is mainly farmland with many of the dwellings and buildings in Amber Hill located on the two parallel roads stemming from the busy A1121 and the drains, dykes and fenland put to agricultural use are prominent features of the Amber Hill area.
It is said that the reasoning behind the Parish’s unusual name is that the village actually stands on a seam of amber coloured gravel and small amounts of this used to be mined many years ago.