The nearest major road is the A68 which is seven miles to the east.
In the village square is the Lord Crewe Arms Hotel. It was built as a monastery in the 12th Century by Premonstratensian Monks. It's alleged to be haunted by the ghost of Dorothy Forster, niece to the Bishop of Durham and Lady Crewe, sister of Tom Forster who plotted the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.
The Crypt bar and the rooms above are original 12th Century. The gardens are now a scheduled ancient monument, they were once the abbey’s cloisters.
Visitors wanting to see the haunted area have to walk through a doorway at the top of the stairs. The door itself was found to be the original inn sign which turned out to be decorated with the Lord Crewe’s coat of arms!
