 The village appears on maps of 1577 and 1611, but is absent from later maps of 1645 and 1720.There is an 18th century bridge over the River Wiske, where an old inn used to stand; the Black Horse.In 1866, Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, a scientist and ironmaster (Dorman Long – Middlesbrough) and early patron of the Arts and Crafts movement, bought the estate.