The Grade I listed church[5] is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and includes stained glass by Paul Woodroffe and Hugh Arnold; the organ is by Samuel Green of London and dated 1787.

St George's Barracks is located to the south and east of the village; this was previously RAF North Luffenham.

Edith Weston features in the Alan Sillitoe novel Down From the Hill, with the main character stopping off in the Wheatsheaf for a shandy.

Edith Weston Hall was a former country house built in an Elizabethan style by the architect Lewis Vulliamy for the Rev.

His son Major Ernest Lucas Braithwaite (also High Sheriff in 1902) sold the estate in 1904 to his nephew, Stafford Vere Hotchkin.