[4] It lies in the north-east of the county, in the Vale of Belvoir, close to the route of the defunct Grantham Canal, which has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and underwent a campaign of environmental dredging and planting in 2014.

The village has a medieval Anglican church, a Baptist chapel, a shop and sub-post office, a village hall with playing fields, and a public house, the Rose and Crown.

[1] The village's name derives from the Old English word meaning 'the hill spurs'.

[6] A group of Bronze Age burial mounds of about 1500 BC have been identified a mile to the south of the parish boundary.

Signs of more extensive occupation date from the Roman period of the 1st–4th centuries AD.