It lies in a small valley through which the River Cledwen flows and has been winner of 'Best Kept Village' on four occasions.

In the centre of the village opposite the Lion Inn is the Church of St Winifred, which was built and dedicated in 1869.

The church is believed to have originated in the mid-600s CE up by Prince Eleri who then went on to set up a double monastery in the village.

[1] Gwytherin is the setting for much of the action in the novel A Morbid Taste for Bones, first published in 1977 by Ellis Peters.

It was the first book in a series of twenty to introduce the fictional Brother Cadfael, the real Prior Robert Pennant, and the rest of the monks at Shrewsbury Abbey in the 12th century.