Multiple circular trails exist for mountain biking, hiking and horse riding, along with remnants of a Bronze Age cairn and industrial lead mining.

The first depiction on an estate map of 1734 shows Plas-yn-llan to the south of the churchyard, the White Lion Inn at the crossroads and a small number of dwellings scattered along the road.

Over the decades the building has had many additions, including a tower and battlements which Mr Wynne-Eyton (the current occupier) thinks date from the 18th century and belongs to the early Gothic Revival period.

[citation needed] This now gentrified home was referred to by the 15th-century poet Hywel Cilcan as “the fair Tower ….a fortress twenty fathoms high”.

[citation needed] Other notable Grade I listed buildings in the area include Nerquis Hall, a 17th-century gentry house, surviving in good condition.