St. Saviour's was built in 1810, on the site of an earlier chapel, which was dedicated to St. Osyth, a name attributed to the daughter of a King of East Anglia, who in 663 AD, was beheaded by Danish invaders, because she would not worship their idols.
Right of burial was first given in the mid 18th. century and the oldest inscription in the graveyard is to the memory of John Hardcastle and dated 1758. The first marriage to take place on the site was in March 1866.
The stream at the foot of the hill is crossed by an old packhorse bridge which was on the route between Fountains Abbey and Bolton Priory.
