Experience the rural seaside magic of the lambing season with ewes and their young lambs wandering around the local lanes and fields in and around Llanmadoc.
Availability for : 2 nights - 2nd and 3rd May 09; and weeks 8th-15th Aug and 29th Aug-5th Sep 2009 still available.
Adjacent to National Trust woodland/coastal-walks, and within Gower AONB
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Wagtails is a charming one bedroom s/c holiday apartment (sleeping 2+2) in the perfect Gower location in Llanmadoc, Gower Peninsula All bedding, towels, and obvious necessities will be waiting for you.
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Wagtails Apartment is shown highlighted in yellow above-right (ground floor only).
[NB: The cottage ringed in the red line to the left in the aeriel photo is Middle Cottage which is also available for holiday rental - see the Middle Cottage website for more details and its availability chart >> www.cottages-gower.co.uk]
...a short walk to Llanmadoc Beach or Cwm Ivy Woods
Your well behaved dog is welcome - the local beach is dog friendly all year around
Wagtails Garden Shown Below
Dai and Heather Howells welcome you to their cottage apartment, "Wagtails", shown in the picture above. Located in the very North West of Gower Peninsula, and situated right on the vilage green, in the idyllic Village of Llanmadoc.
KEY FEATURES SUMMARISED
Wagtails cottage apartment is a 1 double-bedroom ground floor s/c apartment featuring:
As good a location/position as you could ask for for a holiday break.
Situated right in the heart of Llanmadoc, close to Cwm Ivy National Trust walks/woods, and several local nature reserves.
Accomodation is all on the ground floor.
Parking to front door in your own front drive.
Friendly, welcoming, and hopefully informative host owners live next door in Gower Cottage but we leave our guests do their own thing - do pop in for a cuppa however when down. Owners that make an effort and care very much that our guests have an enjoyable stay and all necessary facilities. Your time off work / or retirement time is valuable to you and we want you to enjoy your stay. We love meeting our guests and having a natter about Gower.
Enjoy your wine, milk, and guest information pack awaiting your arrival.
Sleeps 2 in one double bed, in one bedroom - which leads through door to private good size bathroom. Another 1 or 2 kids or one adult on sofabed. We usually tell our guests that the apartment is ideal for a couple, but perhaps too small for a family. However we regularly have families to stay including several with three children, and they have always thoroughly enjoyed (kids have slept on sofabed, and sometimes baby in travel cot in bedroom with parents). Ideal for comfort is one adult couple, and perhaps one child on sofabed. (You would need to move armchair/table slightly to pull out sofabed )
We welcome well-behaved pet dogs.
Lounge/Dining room with a rustic pine table, 4 nice pine chairs, two seater sofabed, single armchair, bookcase and CD player & DAB radio.
Widescreen Panasonic 36inch TV with satellite TV box, SKY Plus Planner, SKy Sports/movies package and Panasonic DVD player in lounge (lots of DVDs and films etc to watch),
Good sized bathroom, with combi fed mixer shower over (new) hite enamel steel bath, new sink and toilet. No shortage of bathroom storage space. Shaving cabinet.
Worcester/Bosch Heatstar Greenslave 18/25 oil fired state of art Combi Boiler Central Heating system (fitted spring 2008) hence constant hot water for nice candle lit bath after a long day walking! You will not be cold!
4 mins walk to the local real ale pub and excellent a la carte pub food / Sunday lunches
10 min walking distance from the beach/woods.
Only 10-12 mins drive to other beaches at Port Eynon or Horton, Oxwich Bay or Llangennith (great surfing), 15 mins to Three Cliffs Bay or 20 mins by car to Caswell, Langland.
Quality bed linen provided, plus t-towels, bathroom towels
Available to let all year round - 12 months and short breaks / weekends
Short breaks for 2 or more nights available November to February
Fullsize dishwasher in kitchen (a small kitchen which leads into lounge diner)
Quality microwave oven, ceramic 4 plate hob, electric oven with grill, toaster, kettle
Hairdryer
Quality Le Creuset pots and pans and decent "Denby Jet" crockery, decent range of curlery and knives/kitchen implements
Electric, heating, cleaning materials/toilet roll, kitchen roll, j-cloths, towels and bedding included in the price
Satellite TV, DVD player, widescreen tv, with movies and Sky Sports - relax and watch movies, F1 racing, the golf, rugby football, tennis or cricket - you're on holiday! Also Setanta Sports for extra sports stuff.
Lounge sits 3 comfortably on brown leather sofas
Gas BBQ on rear patio and garden (free gas bottles provided!)
Ironing board and iron can be borrowed from us if required
1 min walk to the Village shop, 10 mins drive to Knelston petrol station and bakery/shop/PO.
800 yds walk to Whiteford or Llanmadoc beaches/woods [10-12 mins]
Birdwatchers paradise - see Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Jays, Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Collared Doves, Great, Blue, Coal and Long-Tailet Tits and Nuthatches, Wrens, Dunnocks, House-Sparrows, occasional Tree-Sparrows, Starlings, Ravens, Blackbirds, Crows and Jackdaws in our rear or front gardens (depending on seasonality) as well as frequent birds of prey (especially Buzzards, Kestrels and Sparrowhawks) and the more than occasional Barn Owl and Green Woodpecker. Nearby at Cwm Ivy Woods expect Stonechats, more woodpeckers, little egrets, oystercatchers, Dunlins, Grey Herons, and various other estuary and seaside or woodland birdlife.
Surfing/bodyboarding for the kids off the beach
Hill walking available over Llanmadoc Hill, and to Rhossili Down or Llangennith from the cottage
Superb idyllic spot away from it all and not too close to more touristy areas of Gower (e.g. Rhossili Village, Llangennith Beach) but close enough to get to them if you want
No smoking in apartment, but you can smoke in rear patio or gardens.
NB: If you prefer a larger [two-bedroom] cottage, sleeps 5, we invite you to view Middle Cottage, also in Llanmadoc. See it at www.cottages-gower.co.uk
