Blue Berg Houses is a township and village in the parish of Fewston, 7 miles north-north-west from Otley, 5 south-west from Darley railway station and 2 from Fewston church, situated on the Washburn. The church of St. Andrew, a chapel of ease to the parish church, is a stone edifice in the Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave, tower with spire, and a porch, built in 1851, at the expense of the late Lady Frankland Russell, and by her endowed with an income of £30 per annum. Brandrith Crags, consist of a range of immense rocks overhanging the vale of Kexgill, among which there is a logan or rocking stone about 20 tons in weight. Lord Walsingham is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is principally clay; subsoil, clayey and millstone grit. The land is chiefly in pasture. The population (1871) 69, and the area is 2,736 acres, partly moor land; rateable value, £866.