It is a dispersed settlement, with an older core near the castle, 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) to the north-west of the larger main part of the village which is on the B4361.

The bailey wall still stands twenty feet high in places and there are remains of several towers and an early gatehouse around the perimeter.

His castle passed to his son, Osbern Fitz Richard, who married Nesta, the daughter of King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn of Wales.

In 1196 this Hugh fought at the battle at New Radnor and was probably killed there, his castles eventually passing to Robert de Mortimer of Attleborough.

In 1264 his son, Hugh Mortimer, was forced to surrender himself and Richard's Castle to Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.

The castle ruins, St Bartholomew's Church, the Castle Inn pub,the former Methodist chapel and the Court House Dovecote lie in the Herefordshire half, whilst the Shropshire side includes All Saints' Church, the Village Hall and the former primary school.

The Shropshire civil parish includes the villages of Overton and Woofferton, the hamlets of Batchcott and Mitnell, as well as Wheatcommon, Moor Park and McCartneys auction centre.

The Woofferton transmitting station, a notable feature of the area's landscape, spreads across the county boundary and is located in both of the Richard's Castle civil parishes.

The Welsh Marches Line runs through the currently closed Woofferton railway station with Transport for Wales Rail services calling at Leominster and Ludlow only.

Whilst the neighbouring parish of Ludford, which had also been divided into Munslow/Shropshire and Wolphy/Herefordshire parts, was unified fully into Shropshire in 1895, no such unification of Richard's Castle occurred.

The current parish church is All Saints,[9] designed by the notable architect Richard Norman Shaw, and opened in 1892.

[10] It is situated north of the village, within Shropshire, in the Batchcott area, by the side of the B4361 road and is a Grade I Listed building.