About the house.

The following is a detailed description of the farm and surroundings.

The property is set in 200 acres of grazing and woodland with a fishing lake and pond. Guests are welcome to swim, fish, canoe etc. but no lifeguards are present and activities are all at your own risk. Please ensure children are supervised at all times.

The surrounding woods are carpeted with bluebells in the spring and a harvest of hazelnuts in the autumn. We’ve counted the dormice, seen the badger’s tracks and watched the fox families playing up by the river, where the salmon spawn in the winter and brown trout swim in the pools. Up by the old slate bridge there is a rocky hillside where wood anemones grow and if you explore the river beyond you’ll find yourself on your own deserted island in the wild Welsh jungle. Somewhere up the river is the gold mine... no map... see if you can find it.

Back at the farm house there is a log fire to warm up by and the separate sitting rooms with their own log stoves to socialise or be alone by. The house is full of books dating from the library of the original owners the James Family who were preachers, missionaries and farming innovators... books in Welsh, Greek, Latin and Hebrew dating from a hundred years ago, and then those of the present owners’ - children’s classics including several Stig of the Dump, art books, philosophy, psychology and politics.

We have our own spring water source which, as well as being bottled on site and sold, provides all the water for the house. Every time you turn on a tap in the house you get organic Welsh spring water! 'Organic' because the hills it derives from are completely pesticide and fertiliser free and have been for a very long time.

Cardigan has the Theater Mwldan (international music and cinema) a farmers’ market and curi-filled indoor-market; beach at Poppit sands, and the canoe adventure in the gorge at Cilgerran where the castle offers Shakespearean summer theatre and the Wildlife Centre. Lesley does great food there. Walk the whole of Pembrokeshires 180 miles of coastal path or over the Preseli Hills to Newport- it's amazing on a hot summers day up there with the kites and the sheep and the blueberries. We’ll pick you up if you can't manage the walk back for your well-deserved hot spring water bath!

Narberth has great shopping: good fashion and charity shops and many class eateries- Ultracomida has the best Spanish food and delicatessen and the butchers has the best sausages and free range chicken for miles around. There’s more than you could possibly take in in one visit, and you still have Tenby (architecture, shopping, food, beach all in one place). The islands of Skomer and the puffins (a boat trip). The castles at Manorbier and Carew (huge car boot on a Saturday).

Not forgetting surfing at Fresh Water West (sand-dunes) Newgale and Whitesands... the cathedral at St David’s (divine architecture). Big Farmer’s Market and car boot at the airdrome at Haverfordwest. Gliding at Templeton. You’ll need four holidays to pack it all in.

Alternatively stay at home, light a fire, and help yourself to one of the many good books on our shelves...and send the kids out to go dirt or quad-biking with Kev and the boys on the top fields. We also have horses on the property which, with some prior notice, we would be happy to take you out on (unfortunately we can only cater for children/ small adult riders at the moment).

Call for home massage, Wales is the alternative therapists home environment and there is every type of therapy available.

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