A steep hill descends into the village from the south, on which the road passes a large residential training centre for National Grid plc.

The Robin Hood Way, a long-distance footpath that passes through the village, is altogether 168 km (104 miles) long.

Eakring Mill was a five-storey brick tower windmill, built some time after 1840 (grid reference SK673628).

The grade II* listed building was constructed in the 13th–15th centuries and restored in the early 1880s, when the seating was replaced.

It "came with a large tithe barn and other outbuildings, a fold for animals, and a neighbouring orchard and two fish ponds described as 'pleasure grounds' for the house.

In March 1943, production began at around 100 wells, coordinated by Philip Southwell, a petroleum engineer from the D'Arcy Exploration Company (now BP), who had liaised with Lloyd Noble, president of Noble Drilling Corporation in Oklahoma, United States.