[3] The village is situated approximately 6 miles north-west from Cardiff city centre, next to the Garth Mountain, high above the River Taff.

The village can be reached from junction 32 of the M4 Motorway, then A470, then via Heol Goch, a hill flanked by a quarry and nature reserve.

It falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West and is represented by the Labour Party in the House of Commons and the Senedd.

In October 2021 Cardiff Council accepted a number of ward change proposals made by the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales.

Craig Williams was one of the Conservative members involved in a well publicised scandal, alleged to have placed a bet on the date of the 2024 General Election, just three days before it was announced.

[5] A by-election for the Pentyrch ward took place on Tuesday 30 June 2015 which, despite a 27% swing to Plaid Cymru's Hywel Wigley, resulted in a narrow win for Conservative candidate Gavin Hill-John by 18 votes.

[6] At the Cardiff Council election on 4 May 2017 Cllr Hill-John successfully defended his seat, increasing the margin between himself and Hywel Wigley to 215 votes.

Originally a seventeenth-century copyhold farm called Cae Golman, the King's Arms became established as a public house in the eighteenth century.

The club has nearly 200 registered players and runs 10 junior and mini football teams in the Cardiff and District League.

Designed by Charles Edward Mallows for the colliery owner Thomas Evans, and built between 1914 and 1918, it is a Grade II* listed building.