The path towards the road takes you down across limestone grassland. Close to the buildings, the grassland is not as rich as in other places on the Great Orme, although you can still expect to see common rockrose, salad burnet, dropwort, tormentil, common milkwort, and the more nationally scarce hoary rockrose and spiked speedwell.

Archaeological finds on the Great Orme indicate that the headland has been used by man at least since the Stone Age and there are more than 100 sites of archaeological and historical interests. The local discovery of flint scrapers, stone axes and decorated animal bones have revealed that Stone Age people lived in caves around the Orme.

At this time, it is likely that Conwy Bay - visible to the west - was dry land, and during warmer periods it would have been covered by dense forest.

The nearby Kendricks Cave (now on private land) has been extensively excavated and the findings indicate that the Great Orme has been home to civilisation since Palaeolithic Stone Age and later Neolithic Times.

Looking down over the slope you may be able to pick out the ridge and furrow lines. These are the remainders a much later civilisation - early medieval farming communities who ploughed the land here (700 -1000 AD).