[3] North Somercotes is essentially rural in character, with fields and footpaths, however, over the last decade there has been housing development.

[citation needed] A surviving North Somercotes tradition is a Pancake Race which takes place annually on Shrove Tuesday at the North Somercotes Primary School Originally the race was run along Keeling Street, the main street of the village, and part of the A1031.

Competitors race across a field, each carrying a frying pan containing a pancake, which they continuously toss.

The village has three convenience stores, including a Spar, McColls and Co-Op supermarket, one hairdressers, and a shop selling log burners.

The village is also the base for the North Somercotes Platoon, Lincolnshire Battalion of the Army Cadet Force (ACF), badged as the Royal Anglian Regiment, which meets at North Somercotes C of E Primary School on Warren Road.

There are tennis courts, a swimming pool, snooker room, shop, and a number of bars.

[4][5] To the south of the village on Warren Lane is Locksley Hall, a 16th-century red-brick and ashlar Grade II listed house.

The beach at Donna Nook, 11⁄2 miles from the village, is used by the RAF for target practice, with bombing carried-out at limited times during the week and outside the main seal breeding season of November and December.

[citation needed] In November and December, visitors are attracted to a grey seal breeding colony at Donna Nook beach.

Such tramways often used WW1 narrow gauge trench railway equipment to allow year around access to soft fenland fields.

Busses run three times a week on Louth Market days: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

In November 2003 a schoolboy, Luke Walmsley, was murdered by another pupil at the North Somercotes Birkbeck School.