Although there is not a rail station in the village, East Midlands Parkway opened nearby in 2008 at Ratcliffe-on-Soar which provides links to the Midland Main Line.

Lockington Hall in the village was the home of a branch of the Curzon family.

In 1904 Henry Curzon of Lockington Hall was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

[1] In 1994 a hoard of Bronze Age items was discovered locally.

The hoard consisted of the shards of two Beaker style pots, a copper based alloy dagger and two embossed gold-sheet armlets.