 The church hit the headlines in June 2011 when a group of bellringers from Oxfordshire were locked in the church's tower by an irate local due to the noise they were creating.The group were released when a passer-by was alerted to their predicament.The village has a pub (The Half Moon - now closed), Sharow Hall (which is not open to the public) and the remains of a sanctuary cross which signified that the traveller was within of the monastery in Ripon and therefore granted sanctuary.