The earthwork remains of a substantial Roman fort can be seen at Castlesteads Farm, alongside the A6 road just north of the village.

The village has an Anglican parish church by Robert Lorimer,[2] dedicated to St John the Evangelist, a primary school, café and garden centre (the Pot Place), however the Post Office closed in 2016.

On October 29, 1885 PC Byrnes was shot in the head by a notorious gang, named the Netherby burglars by the memorial stone.

The stone reads "Here constable Joseph Byrnes fell on the night of October 29, 1885, shot by the three Netherby burglars, whom he single handed endeavoured to arrest".

The church is unusually modern for an older village, the sandstone date block reads 1907.