The village has a community hall, a campsite (Clun Valley Camping), a church and a pub (the "Crown Inn").

[2] Newcastle on Clun is a civil parish[3] which covers the village and surrounding countryside, reaching the border with Wales to the north.

The parish forms part of the Clun electoral division of Shropshire Council.

[5] An association football club exists in the village, called Newcastle A.F.C.

or Newcastle Football Club, whose home ground is the Mill Field, situated to the southwest of the village between the B-road and the Folly Brook.