This minor road also provides the closest access to the mountain Aran Fawddwy and is the nearest settlement to Craig Cywarch.

The Dyfi flows south to Cemmaes Road where it turns west to head past Machynlleth to the Irish Sea.

The second fortification was in C'aer-bryn field, to the south of the Buckley Arms Hotel, which still had stonework in place in the late 18th century.

In 1555 two brothers pleaded to be pardoned by the Baron Owain, and his rejection of the plea enraged the Gwylliaid.

[5] In 1734, John Mytton, then the Lord of Mawddwy, donated a black marble font to the church at Mallwyd.

The family held the lordship until 1831, when it was sold by "Mad Jack" Mytton to John Bird.

Bird in turn sold the title and the substantial estate in and around Dinas Mawddwy to Sir Edmund Buckley, a rich industrialist from Ardwick near Manchester.

[7] In 1891 the following notice of the twice annual court was posted in Dolgellau: NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the COURT LEET Court Baron and View of Frankpledge of and for the above Manor and for the City and Borough of Dinas Mawddwy for Michaelmas 1891 will be held at the Buckley Arms Hotel Dinas Mawddwy on Thursday the 19th day of November next at One o clock in the Afternoon where and when all Jurors Constables Homagers and others who owe suit and service are required to attend WR DAVIES, Dolgelley, Oct. 31st 1891[1]In 1898, the Municipal Council of Dinas Mawddwy was formed, with Edward Hurst Davies as its first chairman.

Dinas Mawddwy was the northern terminus of the railway, which was built to serve the slate quarries at Minllyn and Aberangell and to provide passenger services along the upper Dyfi valley.