Ravenroyd Farm currently occupies about 100 acres, of which half is woodland and half grass. Equestrian activities, currently run by Paul & Liana Patchett, have been the main business since 1960.   Tracy Lopez Moreno is the Livery Manager.

The house is referred to in the book "Chronicles and Stories of Old Bingley" by Harry Speight. :- "...in the old name of Ravenroyd (mentioned in the poll tax of 1378-9), between Thwaites and Bingley, we have still another exposition of a royd, or clearing, made for the men of the raven, as the Vikings were sometimes called.  Often on their marches they carried live ravens, as portents of good luck and on their battle-flags and banners its image always appeared, in the same way as the eagle was borne as the ensign of the Romans.  The raven indeed was unknown in Yorkshire before its importation by the Vikings from the cliffs of Norway in the ninth century.   To the valleys of Yorkshire they gave the name dales, and the streams they called becks and the ravines gills."

The earliest mention of Ravenroyd of which we have any record was in 1312 when the Abbot of Rievaulx agreed that the canons of Drax (at that time owners of the Parish Church and other property, including Priest-Thorpe, in bingley) were granted "the tithes of places at Whitecoat in Ravenrode".