In the heyday of the Cornwall brothers, Ashcroft Manor was one of the centres of British-style country life in the British Columbia Interior, and was famous for its fox-hunting parties and line of hounds, as well as race horses, and drew the early province's high society to these and other entertainments.
Overlooking Ashcroft Manor to the north is the Cache Creek Waste Disposal Facility. The name Cornwall Hills, referring to the southern part of the low hill-range between the Thompson and the upper basin of Hat Creek, is derived from that of the informal name of the ranch, the Cornwall Ranch. The Cornwall name is shared by Cornwall Creek, a tributary entering the Thompson River on the lower side of the ranch holdings.[2]