The community also includes the settlements of Glan-yr-afon, Llanfor, Cefnddwysarn and Frongoch.

[1] Palé Hall was built in 1871, on the site of an older manor house in Llandderfel.

It was designed by Samuel Pountney Smith of Shrewsbury for Henry Robertson MP, a railway engineer and local landowner.

It is part of the diocese of St Asaph and is mentioned in the Papal Registers of the late 15th century.

This ward stretches beyond the confines of Llandderfel with a population taken at the 2011 census of 1,511.