[4] It is the base of the East Somerset Railway which plays host to a variety of preserved diesel and steam locomotives.

Cranmore Hall is a large 17th-century country house with landscaped gardens which now forms the main portion of All Hallows Preparatory School.

[8] On a hill north of the village is the 45 metres (148 ft) tall Victorian folly, Cranmore Tower, built in 1862–64 by Thomas Henry Wyatt for John Moore Paget.

It is also part of the Frome and East Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[11] Close to Cranmore is a small lake called Torr Works Reservoir which attracts large numbers of roosting gulls.

The Church of St Bartholomew dates from the 15th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.