It lies, when its title indicates, on the east bank River Soar, and is good paired a A6 from Quorn. A village is on the Midland Main Line, and Ivanhoe Line trains stop at a Barrow-upon-Soar railway station.

the village is famed for with a plesiosaur excavated in it's past, in the place of the excavation site is nowadays the roundabout by having the sign indicating this. the actual bones get on display within a local Leicestershire museum.