[1] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,319, including around 300 term-time boarders at the Defence College.

Beaumanor Hall, ancestral home of the Herrick family, was used as a listening station during the war, and intercepted signals intelligence for Bletchley Park.

[7] The oldest part of the village is the church, St Mary-in-the-Elms, which dates back to the 15th century with 17th- and 19th-century renovations.

[8] On the side of the church near to where the Herrick family are buried are a number of old indentations showing where arrows were sharpened for hunting.

Col Sir Robert Andrew Martin, who lived at The Brand, was Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1965 to 1989 and a distinguished soldier.