The Grand Union Canal passes through the village and the north portal of the Blisworth Tunnel is near Stoke Road.

Just to the north of the village on Northampton Road there is a large derelict site, the location of a former abattoir, a garage and small industrial estate.

From the 2013 election until its abolition, the parish was in the division of Bugbrook of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) with one member, who was also Conservative.

The school takes in a number of children from surrounding areas including the southern outskirts of Northampton.

Apart from Blisworth, the catchment area includes Collingtree, Hardingstone, Hackleton, Stoke Bruerne and several other villages.

After several years of neglect the listed building was the subject of a compulsory purchase order by South Northants Council in 2007 and may now be restored partly for accommodation and perhaps some community use.

The road joins the M1 London to Yorkshire motorway at a new junction created at that time, 15A, at West Hunsbury, Northampton.

The London and Birmingham Railway, under the surveying and construction control of Robert Stephenson, bypassed Northampton and opened a station in Blisworth in 1839.

It was electrified in the 1960s and is now part of the West Coast Main Line running 125 mph trains from London Euston to Glasgow.

The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway[10] ran from Blisworth station south to Towcester, Banbury and Stratford upon Avon but closed in the 1960s.

A trial iron ore quarry operated in 1852, probably close to the east side of the Towcester road.

Quarrying began seriously in 1853 or 1855 to the north of the road to Stoke Bruerne near the west end of the canal tunnel.

At this time the ore was taken by horse and cart through the village to be loaded into railway wagons at Blisworth Station.

In 1863 however, the tramway was reopened and canal boats took the ore to Blisworth Station for transshipment to railway wagons.

The iron ore workings were extended northwards and a further quarry opened north of the Courteenhall Road.

the tramway was extended to cater for these quarry extensions and was worked by horses upwards and gravity downwards above the incline.

The quarry was connected by standard gauge steam-operated tramway to sidings on the railway at Gayton south of Blisworth Junction on the line to Towcester.

Lastly, another limestone quarry was opened near Rectory Farm west of the Towcester Road to provide stone for use in connection with construction of the M1 motorway.