It once had a railway station which closed 6 May 1968, and now has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles (13 km) away and to Huntly.

The main school building dates back to 1874 but has been substantially modernised and extended to provide the current 3 teacher accommodation.

Oyne is also the nearest settlement to the now-defunct Arecholink Pre-History Park, which was built in 1997 but closed due to dwindling visitor numbers in 2011.

Ann Tweedy Savage purchased the castle in 1975 and with Slessor Troup, one of the area's top master masons, restored it between 1975 and 1977.

Harthill Castle is a pink-washed Z-plan twin-tower building, seven storeys (77 ft or 23 m) high, made of solid granite, and set in woodland and farmland in Oyne at the foot of Bennachie.