The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the village hall or community centre, playing fields and playgrounds, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning.

[5] The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the North Somerset constituency.

Some of its internal features e.g. old stones, ditches and banks are thought to be medieval boundaries, dating from the Middle Ages and used to divide the wood into sectors.

The woodland sits on a ridge of Carboniferous Limestone, and its slopes are covered with small-leaved lime trees; oak and hazel are more common on flatter hilltop areas.

[6] There is a wide coppiced open area inside the wood, created as a butterfly feature as part of the reserve management work, called "The Ride".

Middle Hill Common is an area of grassland and wild flower meadow,[9] which supports invertebrates and butterflies.

The presence of freshwater and marine interglacial deposits gives it great potential importance for the understanding of the Quaternary sequence of the Vale of Gordano and Avonmouth lowlands.

[11] The parish Church of SS Peter & Paul has a tower and porch which were built around 1300, while the rest of the building is from the 15th century.