The village is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east from Grantham, and falls within the civil parish of Ropsley and Humby .

[3] Ropsley was the birthplace of Richard Foxe, the Tudor bishop who funded the Grammar School at Grantham and Corpus Christi College at Oxford.

Now a private house, many people can remember visiting the bakery as children to get the family bread and cakes.

Each year on Remembrance Day a parade, led by a piper, travels from St Peter's Church to the memorial for two minutes silence.

Today very little of the land is used for livestock; it is almost all arable farmland, growing crops including barley and oil seed rape.

In the 17th century part of the church was demolished and re built by the vicar of the time, Reverend Francis Furlong, because dry rot was discovered in the walls.

It has its own wildlife area, playground, climbing frame and football pitch, and a bell tower and hall.