The Norman church, repaired and enlarged in the 19th century, stands on the north side of the steep valley in which the village lies.

A house built on the site incorporates a plaque formerly set high on the chapel's frontage and a brass commemorative plate.

There are two pubs, the Olde Gate (where Bonnie Prince Charlie’s soldiers were billeted on their march to London and some of the oak beams came from ships of the Spanish Armada[4]) which has a 1616 datestone and a largely 19th-century interior, and the Miners Arms, which was modernised thirty years ago, and which was once the venue for the manor court and the lead miners' Barmote Court.

In addition to agriculture, which still provides employment for a few villagers, Brassington was for centuries dependent on lead mining.

[5] The rough ground to the east, west and north has the hillocks and hollows of hundreds of abandoned mines; there are also remains of the miners' buildings on some of the sites.

Harboro' Cave is a natural cavern which was occupied as far back as the Ice Age and it is a Scheduled Monument.