[3] Paul Kemp-King writes in an unpublished manuscript[4] that it is almost certain that there was once a bell foundry in the village, although its exact location is uncertain.

Kemp-King writes that the difficulty of transporting the heavy bells by horse and cart made local casting by itinerant bell-founders desirable.

It is also part of the Glastonbury and Somerton county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Two woodland types with a restricted distribution in Britain occur and the site supports a locally important invertebrate fauna.

[9] The parish Church of St Andrew, at Dundon, dates from the 14th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.