In 1885, Kelly's Directory noted the parish area as 3,227 acres (13 km2) with principal agricultural production of wheat, barley, oats, beans, turnips, and seeds.

Parish occupations at the time included 30 farmers, one of whom was a maltster, a market gardener, two coke & coal merchants, three machine owners, a wheelwright, two blacksmiths, a harness maker, a carrier, 2 carpenters, a bricklayer, 2 millers, 2 bakers, a miller & baker, 3 draper & grocers, a butcher, 2 beer retailers, one of whom was also a butcher, a shopkeeper, three shoemakers, one of whom was a registrar for births and deaths, publicans at the Sun, the Willoughby Arms and the Nag's Head public houses, and two tailors, one of whom was also the clerk to the burial and school boards.

The tower is of Decorated style with a Perpendicular crocketed spire attached by flying buttresses, and pinnacles set in battlements.

The north side of the chancel houses a mural brass to Antonie Newlove, patron of the vicarage, died 1597.

The circular font is from 1200 and the rood screen 17th century, and parts of an architectural Norman frieze are on the south wall and north-east corner.

Further parish listed buildings include the steps to the base of a former village cross, now surmounted by a war memorial,[6] situated on the village green,[5] an 1864 tower mill,[7] mid-18th-century Thorpe Latimer House,[8] and the 1825 Red Bridge over the Helpringham Eau waterway.

[10] The village has a primary school, post office and the Brass Windmill ..Telephone 01529 421921 public house.