BANK HOUSE, the seat of Thomas Tate, Esq., is situated about a mile north of the village.The present centre of the hamlet lies to the north of a large meander in the River Coquet, and there was settlement near the neck of the meander in medieval times.

The Prior of Brinkburn and the Abbot of Alnwick held part of the area in the 15th century, but this changed again with the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII.

The evidence is not conclusive, but it would appear that the centre of the hamlet had moved northwards by this time, and the southern location abandoned.

The Conservation Area Appraisal suggests that archaeological excavation might enable this uncertainty to be resolved.

The large house at Brainshaugh was improved by the addition of garden walls, incorporating a privy, and Guyzance Mill was rebuilt by the Duke of Northumberland in the 1830s.

[9] The former track from the hamlet which crossed a ford over Quarry Burn to reach Guyzance Mill became a private road to Barnhill Farm, remodelled to become Guyzance Hall in the 1890s, and a footbridge made crossing the Quarry Burn rather easier.

Initial assessment was carried out by the North of England Civic Trust on behalf of Alnwick District Council in 2007.

[12] The River Coquet and its environs at Guyzance is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which protects it from inappropriate development.

It was built as a farmhouse for Barnhill Farm around 1800, but was extended to become a country house in 1894, when the architect William Henry Knowles designed major extensions for the owner J D Milburn.

It became a popular venue for weddings, and Parker sold it for around £6 million in 2016, only retaining a cottage in the grounds for his personal use.

The floor of the building is covered with concrete paving added in the 19th century, and there is a memorial to the Tate family dated 1864.

There was a Premonstratensian nunnery in the vicinity, founded by Richard Tison in the 12th century, but it had become disused by about 1500, and became a parochial curacy.

The iron and timber undershot water wheel is internal to the building, but was probably external when the mill was built.

[27] Some 380 yards (350 m) upstream from Guyzance Bridge, and just above the confluence of the Hazon Burn with the River Coquet, is a horseshoe dam built by the civil engineer John Smeaton in 1775.

The curved dam has a radius of 170 feet (51.8 m) and fed a millrace on the south bank of the river.

[28] The water powered Acklington Park Iron and Tin Works, but this did not last long, and John Reed converted the building into a woollen mill in 1791.

This operation was also fairly short-lived, as the Duke of Northumberland refused to renew the lease in 1930 following pollution of the river.

On the west side lies the original farmhouse and several smaller buildings, all of which have now been converted into twelve separate holiday lets.

Over the road on the east side are a number of old outbuildings which, alongside some newer builds, now make up several permanent residences.

On 17 January 1945, ten soldiers drowned while taking part in a military exercise at Guyzance,[31] on the River Coquet.

The campaign for a memorial had been spearheaded by Burnett Seyburn, who had been a lance corporal at the time of the original tragedy, and Vera Vaggs, a Northumbrian historian.