The Great Western Railway built their line connecting Westbury to Frome across the parish and opened it in 1850; there was no local station.

The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning.

Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

It is also part of the Frome and East Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

A three-storey domestic range to the rear may be 17th-century, while the two-storey front was built as a country house in the mid 18th century.