There is an ancient submerged forest visible at low tide along the beach, where stumps of oak, pine, birch, willow and hazel (preserved by the acid anaerobic conditions in the peat) can be seen.

On 4 April 1876, the entire Uppingham School in Rutland, England, consisting of 300 boys, 30 masters and their families, moved to Borth for a period of 14 months, taking over the disused Cambrian Hotel and a large number of boarding houses, to avoid a typhoid epidemic.

The village war memorial, above a cliff south of the beach, was struck by lightning on 21 March 1983 and had to be rebuilt.

[citation needed] In 2011, work commenced on the first phase of a £12-million coastal protection scheme along the Borth to Ynyslas coastline,[11] which was finished in 2015.

[12] An unexpected consequence of the coastal defence work was to reveal the remains of the petrified forest mentioned earlier.

[13] The village football team, Borth United, resumed playing in the Cambrian Tyres 1st Division in the 2021–22 season.

It is generally served by hourly trains each way between Aberystwyth to the west and alternating between Birmingham International and Shrewsbury in the east.

After his election in January 1889, according to a local newspaper, "flags were generally displayed and after nightfall bonfires lighted, fireworks discharged, houses illuminated and hundreds of people paraded the streets up to a late hour.