The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is mainly 15th century. The rood screen that can be seen today was at sometime removed but restored to the church 1912 after being found in a barn. The chancel has some Norman surviving windows and in the South aisle, the East window is early 20th century depicting the archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. The church is open for visitors daily.

The village once had a foundry, best remembered for developing the Gallus plough in 1830. This design of plough was widely used well into the 1920s. There is an example of a Gallus plough manufactured at the foundry on display in the parish church.

Folklore tells the legend of Shrieking Pit. It is said that in 1782, Esmeralda, a daughter of a farm worker in Craft Lane, was a beauty in her 18th year and held herself with the grace and dignity of a Lady. Many a lad dreamed of her, but she fell for a married farmer from Roughton. He was made to end the elicit affair which lead Esmeralda to reach the edge of her sanity. She roamed the lanes at night to find solace in the quiet and stillness. On one such Moonlit night, walking along Sandy Lane and Hungry Hill she came by the dark pit. She gazed transfixed in to the steely waters,