The village has a local shop/post office and two pub/restaurants: the Young Vanish (an unusual name derived from that of a 19th-century champion racehorse), and the Plug and Feathers (previously a Ma Hubbards venue) formerly and traditionally the Glapwell Hotel, known by many locals as "The New Un"). The hotel was one of the first places that train travellers would see when leaving the nearby London, Midland and Scottish railway station, and was in fact the local Station Hotel. The station itself closed in the 1930s.