Bywell Castle is a gatehouse tower built in the early 15th century for Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland.

[clarification needed] The village is served by Stocksfield railway station on the Tyne Valley Line.

The line was fully opened in 1838, and links the city of Newcastle upon Tyne with Carlisle in Cumbria.

The station is about 1 mile (1.6 km) away on the south side of the River Tyne, in the village of Stocksfield.

[5] Each year in May, Lord and Lady Allendale hold a hunter trial course in aid of the Charlotte Straker Project.