The Dacres family formerly owned two small estates in the area, which they sold to Sir Christopher Musgrave and Dugdale, in his Baronage, suggesting that they had a castle on this site, near the borders.

[8] On the summit of Cardunnock, whose British name has descended to us with considerable purity with ancient Keltic inhabitants.

Is where some British chief was laid to rest, with his war axe and flint headed spear beside him.

"Great indeed must have been the importance of the mighty dead, for whom these sepulchres on the mountains' brow were reared; and as when living they were held in honour, so they were set forth on their long journey to the unseen land of Annwyn – the Celtic Paradise of the west – it may be with a nation's tribute of reverence and love.

"[8] The Church is dedicated to St Mary, built in 1890 on a medieval site, and was designed by George Dale Oliver.

The first is that of World War I 1914 to 1918 where young men were called up that would have worked on the farm land around the parish.

Britain had casualties totalling 2,535,424, so many of the men that were called up to fight for King and country did not return, leading to a population decrease in many English rural parishes.