The pub is a part of the original farming community with the adjacent farmhouse, barn and stables converted into houses.

There is a post office, a Chinese takeaway, a dentist, a doctor, a chemist, a coffee shop and a hairdressers.

Simmondley has a number of public areas, including: a children's play park area with swings and a centre climbing frame; an enclosed floodlit games court called the S.M.U.G.A (Simmondley Multi Use Games Area) with football nets and basketball hoops; open grassland around the estate mainly surrounding the Werneth Road area; a village green to the top of Simmondley with a public phone box, post box, plant pots and seating (during the Christmas period this is the location of the Simmondley Christmas Tree).

The housing developments south of the village have led to it being considered by some as a suburb of Glossop, rather than a separate settlement as it is contiguous with Glossop, although in recent years the local council has installed Simmondley signs at accesses to the village to mark that it has its own separate identity.

There has been calls in recent years for Simmondley to be jointly served by a train station in Gamesley.