 It is chiefly known for the Yorke Arms, a Michelin-starred restaurant on the village green which takes its name from the lords of the manor, the Yorke family, who once lived in nearby Gouthwaite Hall.The Church of St Mary the Virgin was built in 1842 near to the remains of a Grade II listed medieval chapel which was originally part of a large grange built by the monks of Byland Abbey

Ramsgill had a railway station on the Nidd Valley Light Railway, located in the hamlet of Bouthwaite.It opened in 1907 and closed in 1930.