A local meeting place for teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s was Boves café which had a jukebox and sold coffee and snacks.

The proprietor also had an ice cream factory around the back of the shop and vans travel about to this day selling to the public.

There is a local church, St. Georges at the bottom of South Moor and "The Woodland Tavern" once was the Miners Hall.

South Moor Park is located at the bottom of the valley between Oxhill, and the small village of Quaking Houses.

Alongside the large gates which denote the entrance to the park are names of local people who died during World War I.