[1] The parish was described in 1851: "The face of the country is here wild and romantic, but the soil about the village is fertile and well enclosed.

Rye Low, a short distance east of Brund, is about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) high and about 35 metres (115 ft) across; excavations found deposits of vegetation and insects, also cremated bones and flint artifacts.

The present Church of St Luke at Sheen, presumably on the same site, is a Grade II* listed building.

Hope offered to rebuild it at his own expense; the new church, designed by C. W. Burleigh and later by William Butterfield, was consecrated in 1852.

He also built a school with house attached, on glebe land south of the church, and a lending library and reading room, which was opened in 1856.

It was remarked in The Ecclesiologist that "the general effect is that of an ecclesiastical colony in the wilds of Australia".

[1] Broadmeadow Hall, near the River Dove, is a stone farmhouse of the mid-17th century, a Grade II* listed building.

[1] Beresford Manor, in the south-east of the parish, dates from the 17th century, with early 19th-century additions.