The village has an active community centered on the village hall, with amateur theatre, film club, choir, cooking, gymnastics, markets, etc.. Just south of Borum is the stream of Lyngbygård Å.

[2] Borum church is placed on an elevation in the south west, overlooking the village.

The older Romanesque parts of the small church is built from granite ashlar.

North west of the village, towards the lake of Lading Sø, is an elevated plateau overlooking the surrounding landscape, with remains of several Bronze Age burial mounds (tumuli).

The most famous is Borum Eshøj, containing 3 remarkably preserved oak coffins, with the skeletons of 2 men and a woman, wearing intact clothing, daggers, combs and other grave goods, from the 14th century BC (Nordic Bronze Age).