You can park right up to the front door sometimes helpful if your car is full of dog equipment
Wagtails location
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Dining Table Wagtails
Wagtails Aerial from South
View looking at Wagtails north to south direction West is to the right as you look
Cwm Ivy Woods 10 mins walk
A National Trust area and nature reserve and just beautiful to walk and relax with ponies roaming just a wonderful place and gagging with birdlife such as stonechats woodpeckers merlins and so close to dunes and beach and estuary that it is teeming with lapwings oystercatchers and snipes green and red shank and endless other birdlife tree and wader varieties
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Spacious Fridge Freezer
Fridge Freezer Frost Free
Proximity to Beach
Wagtails Walk to Beach in 20 mins
Leather Sofabed in Lounge
For the husband who snores too much
Bedroom with Double Bed
Oak Wardrobe and chest of drawers on top of which is a Bedroom SMART TV
Wagtails Sitting room
Dunes at Llanmadoc
Three Cliffs Bay
A fantastic beach perhaps 20 mins drive away from Wagtails Apartment accessed via Penmaen
Parking is Ample
Takes up to a Camper Van size vehicle and is rather more spacious than the photo suggests
Bedroom at rear peaceful
PURE DAB Radio and lamp on bedside table - bedroom leads into bathroom
Large Bathroom
Photo doesn't really do justice to size of the bathroom. Full size bath on the right. Shaver point. Lit mirror.
Quality but minimal Furniture
Everything we put in is high quality. The TV is on a bracket to save space and has SKY and Netflix
Wagtails Garden
view from your summer house back to garden entrance
Our local beach Llanmadoc
Wagtails garden 2011
Wagtails garden
Entrance to Wagtails Garden
Your garden is substantial in size and totally exclusively for your use and contains a BBQ, benches, table and chairs and small summer house with faux leather seats inside
Another Village Green angle
Wagtails is out of shot immediately to left of phone box
Kitchen area with dishwasher
plenty of spare cupboard space for your groceries
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Ornate bench seating
Wagtails Rose garden
Whole row at village green
Wagtails to the right of the row of cottages
Local produce
as sold in Our Shop Siop y Bobl or shop of the people in english which is a 2 mins stroll around the back of our house Laver bread is boiled seaweed and is lovely and full of zinc iron and iodine have it with bacon and mushrooms hot or cold
Great local shop
Home baked cakes and bread salt marsh lamb or beef
The map showing Llanmadoc
Around 15 miles west of Swansea and Gower is 5 miles wide and 15 long approx and we are in the most beautiful corner of it unspoilt by mass tourism but only 15 mins by car to anywhere in Gower Peninsula
Tourist overlooking views
from Llanmadoc Hill
Worms Head from Llanmadoc
view from Llanmadoc Hill
Rhossili Bay
Walk to Burry Holm at Rhossili Bay from Wagtails in 30 or 40 mins and to Rhossili Village in an hour
Port Eynon Beach
Llanrhidian Church
typical of Gower's churches
Whiteford Lighthouse
Walk out to lighthouse from Wagtails in 30 mins and pick your own mussels
Typical Gower
Photo by Dai Howells in 2006 at Burry Green 5 mins away by car
Britannia Inn is 3 min stroll
Very decent restaurant with owner chef of high quality kids playpark and bird cages
St Cadoc in Cheriton
Must be the prettiest church and location in Wales
Pottery in Cheriton
It does open honest as Johnny Vegas when he came to stay Aug 07
Walk to Berges Island
Not really an island but what a breathtaking 2hr circ walk from Wagtails front door
Local scenery
Overlooking Cheriton Pill towards Loughor Estuary from Llanmadoc Village
Typical local traffic
The brown one is seen trying to overtake the black one without indicating
Local church Cheriton
Eat at the Welcome to Town
Fab restaurant only a 5 mins drive from Wagtails in Llanrhidian
King Arthur Hotel 5 mins drive
at Reynoldston great food beer and wines see the specials board for local sea bass
Llanrhidian marshes
Photo by Dai Howells in June 07
Wreck of Helvetia Rhossili
Worms Head in background and remains of Timber ship Helvetia in foreground read its famous story
Rhossili cliffs and Worms Head
taken Sept 07 by Dai Howells of the Worm from Rhossili VIllage
Port Eynon Beach
a 10 or 12 mins drive from Wagtails
Walk the woodlands Cwm Ivy
A 5 mins walk from front door of Wagtails
Out Local Church
St Madocs is one of Wales oldest and most historic 1 min walk from Wagtails and very special
St Madocs
St Madocs again
Patio at rear of Wagtails
This small patio area is at immediate rear of Wagtails bedroom larger garden entrance is 15 yards away
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Johnny outside Gower Cottage
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Owners of Wagtails
Your hosts pictured in 2015 Dai and Heather Howells
Aerial with HL lines pubshop
Walker on Llanmadoc Hill
Village Location
Llanmadoc
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Rhossili Bay
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Johnny Vegas visits Aug 2007
Johnny stayed at Middle Cottage and entertained locals in the Britannia Inn on the Saturday night with his daft banter and sent loads of stuff to local charities afterwards