The A14 joins the M1 motorway at junction 19 (Catthorpe Interchange) offering easy access to Huntingdon, Felixstowe and London.

The Midland Main Line runs to the west of the village, partly along the edge of the River Ise.

[4] The village used to be connected with Cambridge by rail via the Kettering, Thrapston and Huntingdon Railway, until this was closed in 1961 due to the Beeching cuts.

The parish was abolished in 1935 and most of the area, including the village itself, was transferred into the urban district of Kettering, which subsequently became a municipal borough in 1938.

There is a Community Centre on Castle Way, along with the Masque Theatre, and a new (201&) village hall in the Redrow estate off St Botolph's Road / Polwell Lane.

The large and lively church, St Botolph's, is located at the village green, adjacent to the war memorial.

There is also a pocket park, Wallis Spinney, a strip of woodland which lies within the Ise Valley, south-east of the church, which is accessible via Belvoir Drive.

The Spinney is cut into three areas by a road and a tarmac footpath and is the site of ancient woodland consisting mainly of ash and field maple.

There is evidence of coppicing, hedge-laying and a boundary ditch, possibly from a medieval field system.

Barton Seagrave Primary School is on an adjacent wooded site, and has recently expanded to three-form entry after an extensive building program ending in 2016.

Many new homes have been built to the north of St Botolph's Road / Polwell Lane, extending the developed land towards Wicksteed Park.

The house passed to his brother, William (1668–1741) who carried out more renovations started by his father – the date 1725 being on the lead rain-water heads.

A wing at the east end containing a number of small rooms appears to be older than the rest of the building.

He was killed on HMS Invincible during the Battle of Jutland[20] in May 1916, and his name is on the Barton Seagrave War Memorial.

The soprano singer Elizabeth Harwood was born in the village on 27 May 1938, but moved to Yorkshire at an early age.