A 17th Century cottage fully restored with open fire and unique cliff-type garden. Close to a popular village in the heart of the National Park.
Ground Floor:
Living room: TV, Freesat, Open Fire
Kitchen/dining room: Woodburner, Electric Cooker, Microwave, Fridge/Freezer, Dishwasher, Washer Dryer
First Floor:
Bedroom 1: Double (4ft 6in) Bed Ensuite: Cubicle Shower, Toilet
Bedroom 2: Double (4ft 6in) Bed, (Jack And Jill En-Suite, Shared With Bedroom 1)
Bedroom 3: Bunk (3ft) Beds
Bedroom 4: Bunk (3ft) Beds
Bathroom: Bath With Shower Over, Toilet
Electric central heating, electricity, bed linen, towels, and Wi-Fi included. Initial fuel for open fire and wood burner included. Highchair. Payphone. Small garden with small decked sitting-out area. On road parking. No smoking. Please note: There are 26 steep steps with handrail to decked area of garden.
Unique cliff-type garden
Dating back to the 1800s, this tastefully decorated, terraced property is located near the centre of Beddgelert, a popular village in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park. This holiday property features a lovely open fire in the living room, with a further wood burner in the dining room/kitchen. There is a unique cliff-type garden with a flight of steps up to the small seating area above the house, from which to admire the view of the River Glaslyn and the surrounding mountains. Beddgelert has much to offer the visitor, including the famous legend of the faithful hound Gelert. You can ride a steam train on the Welsh Highland Railway to Caernarfon. There are excellent walks in the area and beaches are just a short drive away. Shops, restaurant and pubs ¼ mile.
Gwynedd is a mountainous county with much of the east covered by Snowdonia National Park. To the west is the Llyn Peninsula which is flatter and has some of North Wales’s most beautiful coastlines.
The lagoons, wetlands, grasslands and reedbeds of Spinnies Aberogwen nature reserve near Bangor attract a wonderful variety of birds all year round but in particular during spring and autumn migrations. In the summer look out for kingfishers, little egrets, and grey herons in the reeds as they hunt for small fish, while in winter, water rails, great-crested grebes, and snipe, are joined by dunlins, lapwings, and redshanks looking for shelter. The reserve has a hide as well as bird feeders giving you the opportunity to see the wildlife up close.
Just south of Porthmadog is Traeth Glaslyn nature reserve made up of salt marsh, willow woodland, and grassland and a haven for wildlife and birds including teals, wigeons, curlews, black-tailed godwits. There is a hide here too, but please note at high tide the reserve can become submerged so check tide times before you go.
Another wetland reserve is the RSPB’s Arthog Bog in the Mawddach Valley. It may be small but it’s crammed with wildlife. Visit in spring for the opportunity to see summer migrants such as sedge warblers, whitethroats, and cuckoos. In autumn, flocks of redwings and fieldfares arrive for the winter. There’s a good chance to see goldfinches, linnets, and siskins feeding on seeds all year round.
For woodland birds head to Nantporth nature reserve, overlooking the Menai Strait and home to blackcaps, treecreepers, nuthatches, and jays. It’s also a good place to spot carrion crows, ravens, and jackdaws which often flock to the foreshore.
Also in the Menai Straits, is Traeth Lafan or Lavan Sands, an intertidal sandbank that is important for waterfowl in particular oystercatchers, as well as ringed plovers, knots, greenshanks, and turnstones.
Although ospreys can be spotted all over Gwynedd, for fans of these magnificent birds of prey a trip to Bywyd Gwyllt Glaslyn Wildlife is a must. A pair of ospreys has been breeding at the site since 2004 and in spring, visitors can watch on camera as the parents deliver fish to feed their chicks at the nest. There are also viewing platforms, hides, and scopes, and volunteers on hand to answer any questions you might have.
