[3] The village is the site of one of Britain's largest archaeological excavations,[4] that of a large settlement which seems to have been occupied for several centuries until about 800 AD.

Excavations of Cook's Quarry in the village, unearthed a cemetery containing 250 skeletons of people buried between the 4th and 7th centuries AD.

[1] The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail and the Centenary Way long distance footpaths run just south of the village.

[8] The entire village was owned by the same family for over 150 years, until 2016, when the land and property remaining in Estate ownership was put up for sale for £20 million following the death of its last owner, Eve Dawnay, in 2010.

A regular Yorkshire Coastliner bus service providing connections to Scarborough, Malton, York and Leeds is operated by Transdev Blazefield.