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Wagtails Seaside Holiday Cottage Apartment, Gower Peninsula

A charming one bedroom s/c holiday apartment 
Sleeps 2 in one double bed 
All ground floor. 
Parking to front door (own driveway)
Great location in Llanmadoc, Gower Peninsula. 
25 mins walk down to stunning beaches, & coastal cliff/hill/woodland walks
7-8 mins walk within same village to local pub with food
Drive to Oxwich or Rhossili in 15 mins, Three Cliffs in 25 mins. 
All bedding/towels provided
Quality fittings, many extras, at the cottage, e.g. SKY HD Planner/DAB Radios/reading lights. 
Shop <1 mins walk, 6 days a week. 
No hidden/extra charges
Dog friendly by arrangement on booking
WIFI internet access free of charge at cottage (bespoke broadband router - password at cottage)

 



Above are seals at the Knave on south Gower. 
Below is Wagtails lounge (with quality Panasonic TV HD and SKYHD + Planner and DVD/BD Player).
 

                                                                                               
Wagtails Garden shown below


ABOVE (right) is shown the entrance to Wagtails (just behind the red phone box).

You will also have a large garden of your own with summer house, leather chairs, garden radio, and a gas BBQ (free to guests) to enjoy. The apartment is not huge but perfectly comfortable for two adults and you can park to your front door, and we guarantee top quality fixtures, fittings, bed and bedding. Many of our guests comment on the quality of our bed/mattress. 

It also has some quality entertainment available to ensure those few resting hours after a days walking are enjoyable and match or exceed what you have at home e.g quality crockery, pots and pans, perfect DAB digital broadcast radios in lounge and bedroom (with alarm), Panasonic 32" HDTV, with DVD & Blue Ray player and SKY HD with sports and movies. Landline in apartment for guest's sensible use.

Enter Wagtails front door into small kitchen area, with cooker hob, grill oven, dishwashes, fridge with ice box, sink, worktops. The kitchen walks through into a small dining and lounge area (all open plan) and then enter through a doorway into the bedroom (wardrobe, chest of drawers, bedside cabinet), 16" Digital bedroom TV, with built in DVD player. From the bedroom, you walk through another door into the bathroom (good sized - with shower over bath, WC, pedestal sink and mirrors and plenty of storage). 

All bedding, towels, and obvious necessities (coffee, tea, sugar, milk, salt, pepper etc and a bottle of courtesy wine) will be waiting for you and we are dog friendly. See photo below but please note the photo doesn't really do full justice to the idyllic Village Green setting and location of Wagtails and the surrounding area.

Below, (going clockwise starting with the kitchen photo) is shown the Wagtails Kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, lounge, and bedroom.
 






THE LOCATION OF WAGTAILS SEASIDE APARTMENT 

Walking from Wagtails, you can walk to three local nature reserves with endless birdlife, to four beaches (Llanmadoc, Broughton, Blue-Pool, and Llangennith), a National Trust woodland and dunes, some superb cliff walks above beaches, an Iron Age fort with ringed ramparts, on a hill with spectacular views across Gower, and take a 5-10 mins stroll to the local real ale pub with restaurant. 




This photo (ABOVE) is of our local beach  - Llanmadoc/Broughton.

A 15-30 mins walk down a country lane from Wagtails front door - leave the dog sprint into the waves on this vast 3 mile expanse of sands clifftops woodlands and dunes. Distance approx 1.5km to beach and depends how fast you walk. NB: STEEP LANE on return if you come back from Llanmadoc end of beach. You can walk up a far less steep incline from Broughton end of the beach via Lagadranta Farm in 20-35 mins.  Much less steep lane.

National Trust owned woodland - 15 mins walk from our Wagtails front door  -a great circular walk takes 40 mins  to one hour through the woods and over the sea dyke, back up to the village (via Britannia Inn for a coffee on way back it takes longer of course!) 

The Iron Age Fort the Bullwark on top of Llanmadoc Hill, an ancient fortress / village site. Llanmadoc Village and Wagtails Apartment can be glimpsed to top right of photo

 
View looking due north west from Llanmadoc Hill See the Iron Age ramparts. 
Just behind Wagtails and climb the hill. See Whitford Lighthouse, Berges Island,  Llanmadoc Village and Cwm Ivy Hamlet are seen below and the 3 mile sweep of Llanmadoc Beach across left to Broughton (out of picture)  - this is called Whitford Bay. That is Burry Pill to the right the snake like muddy river which fills and overflows on spring tides filling in this salt water estuary grassland saltmarsh to the right (east) of Whitford Point/Cwm Ivy Woods. 

The village shop is a 2 mins hop skip and jump from the front door.
In the Heart of Gower Peninsula AONB





The above beach, peninsula, dune, marshland, hill/cliff, and woodland walks are within front door walking of our cottage. The lower right hand promontory headland is Whitford Point, with Whitford Cast Iron Lighthouse just visible, and the sandy spit on the bottom left of the picture is a sand bar overwatched by the Birdwatching Hide nearer the woods. The far top left hand, just visible, is the famous (Rhossili) Worms Head at Rhossili. Broughton/Llanmadoc Bay are the main visible beaches at the centre of this photo. 

Blue Pool Corner (a bit similar to Lulworth Cove) and Burry Holm Island can be seen centre top of the picture.  We think you will be truly stunned by the exhilarating walks you can take from Wagtails Cottage (and Llanmadoc Village) which - on this photo - are located just slightly out of picture to the left hand side half way up the photo. 

There are woodland, sand dune and marshland as well as marine Nature Reserves within this photos, and the marshy and wooded areas (bottom left of photo) are a birders paradise, as are the beach/estuary areas. 


 




Wagtails Garden shown above (right). Summer shed with leather seats inside. (Listen to the Cricket on the Portable DAB PURE radio in inside).

Adjacent to National Trust woodland/coastal-walks, and within Gower AONB see our photo gallery (Clock on the "Photos Wagtails" button above to see over 50 photos)

The exact spot on Broughton beach shown below in the picture is a 25-30 mins standard pace walk from the front door of Wagtails, down a quaint country lane, through the Lagadranta Farm lane below Whitford caravan park, and through a small dune path.

BROUGHTON BEACH......PROXIMITY...

The beach is approx 30 minutes gentle walk, down a lane (which is quite steep in places for 200 yards). 

A scenic idyllic 1.5 km walk via country lane (downhill) to Whiteford / Llanmadoc [20 mins brisk pace walk or 35 mins slow walk to start of sand-dunes/top of beach and woodlands and a further 10 mins to the water if tide is out] Reaching the beach can take longer e.g. at a very ambling slowish pace  - perhaps 30-35 minutes. Equally a fast walker can do it to the beach in 15 minutes - it is mostly downhill. NB: The Cwm Ivy lane which leads immediately down to the Llanmadoc end of the beach is quite steep for those who find walking a problem. Bear this in mind when deciding what to take and take some water or a re-fillable bottle. There is a drinking water tap at bottom near woods entrance near Cwm Ivy Lodge. (30 yds inside gate, and in front of tin roof lodge - on wooden standpipe beside the footpath). The other route to the beach is less steep towards Broughton and Whitford Holiday Park direction. Perhaps under 30 mins average stroll. 

CAUTION
NOTE THE RATHER STEEP LANE (FOR 300 YDS) AT CWM IVY ON YOUR RETURN JOURNEY IF YOU RETURN FROM THE LLANMADOC END OF THE THREE MILE BAY
THE WALK BACK IS FAR MORE GENTLE AND GRADUAL ON YOUR RETURN JOURNEY IF YOU RETURN FROM THE BROUGHTON (WHITFORD CARAVAN SITE) END OF THE THREE MILE BAY

                      
To Contact the Owners: Either Email (see top)  

OR 

Feel free to ring Heather Howells at home anytime Tel: 01792 386668 or 07990 522250 
Wagtails Apartment is shown highlighted in yellow above-right (ground floor only).