The Golden Valley area offers hillwalking and horseback riding countryside and is noted for its scenery.

[5][6] From 2014 to 2018, the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (Historic England) put £150,000 into scientific and historical study of the Snodhill Castle site, plus an additional £500,000 grant to the Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust to complete clearing and restoration of the remains of Snodhill Castle, with the site opening to the public as of May 2018.

During Victorian era rebuilding of the church in the 1890s a tomb to another de Brito was found which contained a pewter chalice.

The Dorstone History Society seeks to study the church and the village – which stretches back to Neolithic times as suggested by the local Arthur's Stone, an ancient monument.

This is said to be the spot where King Arthur slew a giant who left the impression of his elbows on one of the stones as he fell.