The school building was converted for residential use,[5] as was the former mill house and a large derelict farmhouse.

Among the species seen round the village are the buzzard, the quail, and the reed and sedge warblers.

[12] The nearest railway station is Bottesford (5½ miles, 8.9 km) on the Nottingham to Grantham/Skegness line.

Redmile railway station (1½ miles, 2.4 km), with trains between Melton Mowbray and Grantham or Newark-on-Trent, closed to passengers in 1951.

Barkestone is served by daytime buses between Bottesford and Melton Mowbray six times a day on Monday to Saturday.