The reference is possibly to the curved hill above Slei Gill and Arkle Beck, on which the hamlet is situated.

Chert was mined on Fremington Edge, south of Booze, until the beginning of the Second World War.

In July 2008, Royal Mail announced it was withdrawing postal services from the hamlet on health and safety grounds because access to it involves an "excessively steep" rural track.

[7][8] This left local families to make a one-hour round-trip into Richmond and back to collect their mail.

[9] Postal services to the hamlet were restored after North Yorkshire County Council made road improvements.