 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.The murderer Eugene Aram was born in Ramsgill.