The quarry was taken over in 2007 by Black Mountain Quarries, based at Pontrilas, and remains operational.
Her parents, being from Pontrilas in Herefordshire, led her to receiving her first airplay on BBC Hereford & Worcester including a BBC Introducing session at the Courtyard in Hereford.
The village name means 'bridge over three rivers', as the River Dore, Dulas brook and another smaller stream meet there.
Pontrilas Army Training Area is a British Army training camp, located just north of the village of Ewyas Harold near to Pontrilas in Herefordshire, England.
In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.
The Golden Valley Railway, which had its northern junction at Hay and ran through the Golden Valley to Pontrilas, was built between 1876 and 1889, was closed down in 1898, and then rescued by the Great Western Railway in 1901.
Pontrilas railway station served the village of Pontrilas, Herefordshire, England, and Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, and a little distance Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales and was on the Welsh Marches Line between Hereford and Abergavenny.
At one time the river was noted for its substantial brown trout population, with the length from Pontrilas to Skenfrith producing record catches.