From the 2022 Vale of Glamorgan Council elections Ewenny was transferred to the neighbouring St Brides Major ward.

Within Llandow is a small parish church of 11th-century origins dedicated to the Holy Trinity, with a saddleback tower.

Adjacent to the village is a disused airfield that was once home to a World War II RAF station, part of which has now been converted into the Llandow Circuit for motorsports.

[5] On 12 March 1950 RAF Llandow was the site of the Llandow air disaster, when an airliner returning Welsh rugby fans from an international match in Belfast crashed on approach in the nearby village of Sigingstone.

80 passengers and crew died, making the crash the worst air disaster in history at the time.