Brayton is almost entirely residential with the exception of a few local shops, including a butchers and a post office. Village schools are
Brayton Academy, Brayton Juniors, and Brayton
C of E Infants. The Infant School is one of the oldest buildings in the village. The school house was once home to the headmistress of Brayton school, and lessons were taken in a smaller building. The house is now a private residence, and the old school room is now a small part of the extended building. Brayton Methodist Church and
St Wilfrid's Church are the two religious buildings. The Methodist chapel was built in 1844, extended in 1961 and the 1961 extension re-developed in 1994. It is reputed that John Wesley, the founder of Methodism who travel widely throughout the country, preached on the original Village Green (the triangle adjacent to the chapel) but there is no documentary evidence to prove this. Being a small person, it is also reputed that he stood on a chair in order to be seen. That chair (?) with an appropriate plaque has been the pulpit chair in the chapel since the chapel was built. The Grade I
listed Church of England parish church, dedicated to
St Wilfrid, dates from the 12th to the 15th centuries with 19th-century alterations and stained glass. Within the church is a tomb to
Lord D'Arcy (died 1558), and his wife, its
effigies damaged during the 17th-century
Interregnum. ==Governance==