Roose is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun which was held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria.

[4][5][6] A modern expansion of Roosecote is the Holbeck or Yarlside estate which has some early twentieth century housing but has mainly been developed and expanded from the 1960s onwards by building on land of the Holker estate.

The area is bound by Yarlside Road to the west and Leece Lane to the south.

A corn mill was situated on the stream now call Red River just north of the Railway stop but was demolished sometime between 1847 and 1891.

[7] Roose railway station (an unmanned stop), which serves the suburb, is located on the Furness Line, giving connections to Barrow, Millom, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands and Lancaster.

An Anglican-Methodist shared church called St Perran's, was built in 1967 and was located on North Row.

Roosecote power station was converted from coal to now generate electricity from gas.

There are plans to build a new, smaller backup and storage gas plant on the site.

The site is also home (at the time of its building) to the largest battery in the UK (which is used to stabilize the electrical grid).