[3] Set in mainly agricultural lands the compact village contains the 18th century Great House and a fine farm group.

[4] Benjamin Heath Malkin mentions Welsh St Donats in his 1803 work The Scenery, Antiquities and Biography of South Wales, while passing along the 'great road' that ran north of the village, which linked England to the port of Milford Haven.

The Great House, is a two-storey 18th-century building of modest features consisting of three, three-bay units, the centre of which is higher than the sides.

[9] Prisk Farm, which is situated about a mile to the west, once boasted an elaborate modelled plaster ceiling, of 17th- or 18th-century design.

[10] By the middle of the 13th century the castle had passed from the Siwards to the ownership of Richard de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan.

The Lords of Glamorgan held onto the castle the late 15th century when it reverted to the monarchy after the death of Jasper Tudor.