There are many old cottages, some fine Victorian and Edwardian family houses and, as always, newer properties on the fringes of the village. There are some allotments and unmade roads, both of which could feature in Disappearing Yorkshire. There are two golf courses in Woodhall Hills and spectacular views across Leeds and Bradford and beyond. There are good walks in Calverley Woods and down by the river. The village is served by two public houses, the Thornhill Arms and the New Inn.
Church has some Norman elements but largely dates from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
It is in the Decorated style which is unusual in this area. There is old glass in the east window, an altar which is Elizabethan and a Jacobean cover on the font. Outside in the north wall are stones carved with crosses, dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and believed to be early memorials of the Calverley family. Others lie in the churchyard. There is the grave of a Royalist who fell in the Civil War and that of a giant man, Benjamin Cromach, who was said to have needed eight feet of English earth when he was buried.