WAGTAILS COTTAGE
A small and perfectly formed self catering cottage in Llanmadoc Village

Why Stay at Wagtails?  

Heather & Dai feel that our unique selling point is probably our gorgeous rural, village, seaside location and proximity to the year round dog friendly beaches at Broughton and Llanmadoc. (We are dog friendly).

Folk from all over Swansea Bay, Cardiff and further afield often take day trips to walk our National Trust Woodlands and walks around Whitford Bay to the lighthouse peninsula and Berges Island which are all right on our doorstep. Guests who stay a few days usually walk over to Rhossili Beach, Llangennith Village and Burry Holm Island, even Rhossili Village. 

We are also a short walk to the Award Winning Community Villlage Shop "Siop y Bobl" and post office.
There are two coffee & cake venues and a pub with excellent food in the village. 
You can walk or drive to 5 pubs within 5 mins. 
The Cottage comes with a beautiful rear garden including "Wagtails Herb Garden" with a table/chairs and some fresh herbs and "The Bay Tree Garden" which is an enclosed peaceful sanctuary with benches to sit on. There is also a pleasant little rear yard area with table and two chairs for the smokers who need to nip in and out constantly. 
Open the front door at 1am and you will often hear the local owls hooting, or shrieking. And on clear evenings see beautiful starry skies. 

We are only a 5 mins drive to the various local wedding venues of Fairyhill, Oldwalls, King Arthur and Ocean View, for which our two or three night breaks might be of interest to you. After a busy wedding take a leg-stretching beach stroll the next  day.  



WEEKLY PRICES & AVAILABILITY
FOR NEW SEASON  

AVAILABLE BREAKS 2025

As you may have noticed, From Autumn 2024 at Wagtails Cottage, we have added flexibility to our weekly stay arrival/departure day
to allow guests to arrive on any available any available day if they so wish.
So you can do Saturday to Saturday or Friday to Friday or Monday to Monday etc etc 

Furthermore, you can now book a weekend only stay, and this can be for 2, 3 or 4 nights.  
 

Supporting Diversity, warmly welcoming all. 
 

WAGTAILS COTTAGE  - AVAILABILITY & PRICES
Arrive on the afternoon of				Depart on the morning of			Price (£) GBP	2024
Sat	9	Nov	to	Fri	15	Nov	£345	AVAILABLE 4 nights £295
Mon	18	Nov	to	Sat	23	Nov	£415	Booked 15-18th Nov REBECCA Jenkins for Sobell AVAILABLE Monday - Sat 5 nights @ £340
Sat	23	Nov	to	Sat	30	Nov	£350	AVAILABLE
Sat	30	Nov	to	Sat	7	Dec	£350	AVAILABLE
Sat	7	Dec	to	Sat	14	Dec	£350	AVAILABLE
Sat	14	Dec	to	Fri	20	Dec	£300	AVAILABLE 6 nights
Fri	20	Dec	to	Sat	28	Dec	£420	ALICIA J  XMAS 2024 8 nights We threw the 8th night in free of charge.
Sat	28	Dec 2024	to	Sun	5	Jan 2025	£485	AVAILABLE NEW YEAR 2024/25 for up to 8 nights We threw the 8th night in free of charge.

About Wagtails Cottage

Walk to: Our Village Shop "Siop y Bobl" in 2 minutes, pub in 10 minutes, beaches in 20 minutes.

We are dog friendly (no dog limit it is at owners discretion what is manageable. We invite guests to bring dogs provided they are declared on booking. 

From the doorstep you will find some of the most stunning landscape in Wales from the doorstep. Wind-swept beaches, woodlands, dunes, rocky cliff paths. Woodlands with streams and limestone valleys, and hills (Tors such as Cwm Ivy Tor, and Hill Tor, or Prissens Tor) overlooking Pembrey/Cefn Sidan across the Water due north west. Found locally are several SSSIs and Nature Reserves, much of it on National Trust Property. We have both the estuary and beaches into the open beaches one end facing towards Carmarthen Bay and beyond to Ireland, the other end (being dog legged) facing towards Pembrey Country Park and Burry Port.

Just leave your car in the drive and just enjoy the local area and walks.  

External 

Parking for Wagtails guests is in the drive up to the front door.
Taking the side path into a paved back yard with small patio chairs and table, leading through a wooden gate into a substantial dog secure rear "Woodland" style garden. 

Entrance

To enter Wagtails Cottage via the solid oak "Stable-style" front door from the driveway, which leads into kitchen area. 
This stable door allows you to allow in some fresh air on a hot day whilst keeping your dog safe inside. 

Kitchen area (joins into Lounge)

A neat functional convenient kitchen including a ceramic cooking hob, slot under oven with grill, sink with drainer, and the usual basics of a toaster, microwave, kettle, tall spacious 70:30 fridge/freezer, full sized dishwasher. There are no laundry facilities. 

Lounge

From kitchen area (open plan) into lounge/dining area.
A gorgeous reclaimed antique pine table and two cottage style beech chairs. This table offers guests the space they may need to work from home or just use a laptop, read a newspaper, play card games whatever. We increased the size of this table following guest feedback around covid where people wanted the chance to "work from home" while staying away from home for lovely beach walks. 
The table also obviously offers dining space as and when needed. 
High quality double leather sofa (metal action sofabed)
One additional high back Armchair. (Guests tell us how much they love reading in this chair). 
Reading light located on ceiling above leather sofa (to aid reading a book).
Side Lamp. Nest of three small solid oak tables. 
S'fast WIFI BT Broadband (password issued on arrival)  
40" Panasonic SMART TV with Freeview Play, Netflix, Prime, and Apps like 'NOW' 
(streaming services such as netflix and amazon prime, disney, subject to customers using own account logins)
Radio alarm in bedroom and in lounge with good reception.   

Bedroom

Ledge and brace oak door into bedroom (double bed, oak chest of drawers, oak wardrobe, bedside table, radio with alarm, TV.

Bathroom

Leading via further oak ledge and brace door into the spacious bathroom which has a large steel/ceramic bathtub (very nice for a hot bath after a long days walk across Gower's many dunes, hills and beaches), with a mixer shower over. Wc, pedestal basin with backlit large mirror above, plenty of bathroom shelf space. 
The wall above the bath has big easy grip handles to aid your footing during a shower. 

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Heating & Hot Water

Heating is via owner's combi-boiler system. Radiators have TRVs (if it gets too warm) but it is never too cold. 
Constant combi hot water for bath, shower, basin and kitchen sink. 
Owner provides additional portable oil-heater on wheels (De Longhi type) if required. 
NB: Wagtails external walls have been cavity wall insulated using high quality carbon black beads. It's 'above ceiling' area is extremely well insulated too.  

Included

Towels, bathmat, bed linen, toilet rolls, are all provided within the price.
Obviously heating/electric is included. 
Whilst the cottage is no smoking  - has mains smoke / fire detectors - you are welcome to smoke in the front driveway or at the rear patio or rear gardens. 
We offer fresh bedding for guests staying more than a week or on request. 

Laundry facilities

There are unfortunately no Laundry Facilities in Wagtails Cottage itself.  
For bookings over a week (NB: 8 nights or more) we will include in the price two loads of laundry for you free of charge (washed and tumble dried) - using our own utility room (we live next door). 

Dogs

We welcome dogs and allow multiple dogs. Dogs are charged at £20 per dog, per stay. This is for any stay up to a week. There is no additional dog fee for a two week stay. It is a one off fee for any length of stay. 
There is a large black public litter bin on the village green barely 25 metres away from the front door in which you are allowed to dispose of 'doggy waste' bags. 
We never ever hear guests dogs barking. So please don't worry if your dog barks. They nearly all do.  
We do not tell guests where their dogs can and cannot go. It is only a small Cottage Apartment so we use common sense as fellow dog owners and say that if your dog likes to sit on the sofa with you at home, or sleep on your bed, please feel free to let him/her do it at Wagtails too. 
The four main stones of the geology of Gower all in one wall. 
Millstone grit, carboniferous limestone, old red sandstone and gower conglomerate. 

Arrival and Departure times

Departing by 11.30am on departure day
Arrivals after 4pm on arrival day 
 

 

ABOVE: Photo taken in 2020 - of Whitford Bay  / Broughton Beach taken from Blackrock Point looking east.


Llanmadoc Village - where WAGTAILS is located - will be to the right of this photo and above/behind the caravan park visible in this photograph. 

(The rear garden has grown more mature since the photo below. It is now more woodland style and shaded.). 

To make an enquiry

heatheranddaihowells@gowercottage.com 

or Text / WhatsApp Mob: 07795 177663

What to Bring and What is provided

We provide:

All utilities (electric, water, heating, etc)
Heating & hot water, the cottage is very well insulated. 
Free Fast Broadband
All bedding, towels, dog towels, dog water bowl
TV entertainment as described above, incl. TV Licence,
Digital radios with Alarm
Pots & pans, crockery, cups/mugs, T-Towels, cutlery, wine glasses, salt & ground, bread-bin, toaster, obvious kitchen utensils, bottle opener, scissors/knife block
Cleaning materials, washing up liquid, Hand Wash in kitchen and bathroom
Sugar, tea bags, instant coffee, small packet of ground coffee, loo roll, bin recycling bags, 
Cling Film, and Aluminium Foil in kitchen drawer
Slot in Oven grill & Ceramic Hob),
Large Microwave Oven 
Tall Fridge / Freezer (freezer drawers should have little ice trays in it) 
Wheelie Bins for Recycling, with all necessary coloured recycling bags
Patio Table and two upright patio chairs
Small BBQ with Lighting Pot, and BBQ kit in clip down box
BBQ briquettes/charcoal
An OS map of Gower (orange type) to borrow during your stay   
We usually have fresh Herbs in the garden 

You need to bring your own : 

Food, Cooking Oils, Butter, 
Washbag, Shampoos/Body Wash, Paper Tissues
TV Firestick if you use one (but noting all the other TV options above) 
Mobile Phone Charger plug and lead
Password and Account Details if you intend to use Netflix, Disney, ITVX or Prime TV. 
Dog food, dog portable water bottle, dog bed if he uses/they use one, dog leads, dog toys etc 
(We hope this is a helpful aide memoir of car packing items) 
Spare clothing as there are no laundry facilities at Wagtails. 


Other items we may be able to provide "on request"
(ideally prior to arrival & subject to availability at the time) 

Spare bedding for sofabed (Pillows and Duvet, with covers/sheets) 
Air-fryer / Ninja - we keep one spare for guests to borrow
Slowcooker
Breville Sandwich Maker
Kenwood Soup Maker
Additional pots or pans, additional kitchen utensils.
Emergency 'borrow' of phone chargers
Electric Cordless Hand Blender
Clothes drying Horse if you hand wash anything 

NB: The Village Shop is usually closed by Saturday 4pm and doesn't reopen until the Monday 10am. Even then it is very much a coffee & cake shop that also sells some food items, so can be limited in both choice/availability, for even basic food shopping. You are therefore advised to do any food shopping (including milk, bread, wine etc) BEFORE you get arrive in Llanmadoc. The Post Office within the shop is open 10am-12noon around 3 days per week - it varies.  

Food Shops
You can top up items as required during the week at the village shop, or if not available, drive to one of the local petrol stations (Llanrhidian or Knelston both around 3 miles / 12 mins drive) that have a slightly wider choice, or drive back 9 miles/20 mins to Penclawdd (CKs supermarket and two butchers) or the Dunvant Farm shop (at the road between Dunvant/Gowerton, around 14 miles/ 30 mins away), or drive the 14 miles/30 mins to Gorseinon to the major large chain supermarkets (Lidl, Aldi, Asda). It is around 15 miles to Swansea (Fforestfach) Tesco's Extra. (See booking form for more info) 

Cancellations Policy

DEPOSITS

• We ask for a deposit of 30% on booking (we are happy to wait for the deposit payment for 7 days after the date on which you confirm a booking).

• Payment by BACS or Cheque. We unfortunately do not have facility to take credit cards.

BALANCE
 

• The balance of 70% is due 2 calendar months prior to arrival. If the date you confirm a booking is already within two calendar months of arrival then the balance in full is payable on booking.   

• Example: if you book on either the 5^th or 17^th April for a week’s stay on 30^th June then you will only need to pay a 30% deposit and then settle the balance by 30^th April. But if you book on 30^th April for the same 30^th June stay, the full balance becomes due immediately.

CANCELLATIONS – A SIMPLE AND FAIR POLICY

By booking with us directly and not via one of the major booking systems it means that we can be more helpful than the big operators.

THE CANCELLATION POLICY

• If you cancel nearer than two calendar months of arrival date our chances of re-advertising and getting a booking diminish greatly based on our long experience, so you can expect to lose your booking fee - unless we can rebook.  So please consider annual travel insurance that covers you for British based holidays.

• If you cancel nearer than two months of your arrival date and we do re-book your dates we will repay you 100% of whatever we receive from the replacement booking/s.  

• If you cancel more than 2 months prior to arrival we will refund you in full, including the deposit.