The community includes the village of Llanddoged and the rural settlements around Maenan.

[2] In 1283 Edward I of England forced the monks of Aberconwy Abbey, in Conwy, to relocate to Maenan, to make way for the castle and fortifications he was building in the town.

A house was built on the site, which was replaced in 1852 by what is now the Maenan Abbey Hotel.

[4] Drainage work at the hotel in 2011 unearthed remains of the abbey buildings.

[5] Nearby Maenan Hall is a 15th-century timber-framed house containing elaborate Elizabethan plasterwork, which is Grade I listed.