Wagtails Seaside Holiday apartment self-catering pet-friendly, dog friendly, Gower Peninsula walk to pub and beaches-Wagtails Cottage for Broughton Beach and Cwm Ivy
You can park right up to the front door sometimes helpful if your car is full of dog equipment
The driveway is off road and convenient for guests
Llanmadoc Post Office Green
Superfast Broadband - have a working from home break
View looking at Wagtails north to south direction West is to the right as you look
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
Wagtails Walk to Beach in 20 mins
For the husband who snores too much
Oak Wardrobe and chest of drawers on top of which is a Bedroom SMART TV
A fantastic beach perhaps 20 mins drive away from Wagtails Apartment accessed via Penmaen
Takes up to a Camper Van size vehicle and is rather more spacious than the photo suggests
PURE DAB Radio and lamp on bedside table - bedroom leads into bathroom
Photo doesn't really do justice to size of the bathroom. Full size bath on the right. Shaver point. Lit mirror.
Everything we put in is high quality. The TV is on a bracket to save space and has SKY and Netflix
view from your summer house back to garden entrance
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
Wagtails is out of shot immediately to left of phone box
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
Home baked cakes and bread salt marsh lamb or beef
from Llanmadoc Hill
view from Llanmadoc Hill
Walk to Burry Holm at Rhossili Bay from Wagtails in 30 or 40 mins and to Rhossili Village in an hour
typical of Gower's churches
Walk out to lighthouse from Wagtails in 30 mins and pick your own mussels
Photo by Dai Howells in 2006 at Burry Green 5 mins away by car
Very decent restaurant with owner chef of high quality kids playpark and bird cages
Must be the prettiest church and location in Wales
It does open honest as Johnny Vegas when he came to stay Aug 07
Not really an island but what a breathtaking 2hr circ walk from Wagtails front door
Overlooking Cheriton Pill towards Loughor Estuary from Llanmadoc Village
The brown one is seen trying to overtake the black one without indicating
Fab restaurant only a 5 mins drive from Wagtails in Llanrhidian
at Reynoldston great food beer and wines see the specials board for local sea bass
Photo by Dai Howells in June 07
Worms Head in background and remains of Timber ship Helvetia in foreground read its famous story
taken Sept 07 by Dai Howells of the Worm from Rhossili VIllage
a 10 or 12 mins drive from Wagtails
Wagtails location context. Owners live in Gower Cottage to the centre
Local Walks
This small patio area is at immediate rear of Wagtails bedroom larger garden entrance is 15 yards away
Wagtails context photo sheep
Your hosts pictured in 2015 Dai and Heather Howells
Could be a scene from Benidorm
Berges Island as the tide gets higher this is the scene just below our local pub the Britannia Inn
Llanmadoc
27 Feb 2020
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
Where he entertained us all
View over Llanmadoc Beach, Whiteford Lighthouse, and Berges Island towards Llanelli and in the background the Brecon Beacons. The summit is more of an east west ridge-line than a distinct single point summit and allows guests to walk over to Llangennith Village and indeed further over to Rhossili Village for the fitter. From either village you can catch a bus back to Llanmadoc and disembark right outside the cottage. Llanmadoc Hill has a Bronze-age fort called The Bulwark and clearly visible are the concentric rings of fortifications of ditches and dykes at the north eastern end of the hill (away from the prevailing wind).
Historic scenery
You can walk to Burry Holm Island from the cottage in around 45 minutes via Broughton Bay and Bluepool.
Broughton Bay is in the distance. It would take around 25 mins to get to the spot this man is stood from the cottage.
Note the weather front cloud bank moving in from the west left to right. This photo was taken from Rhossili Village which you can drive to in 20 mins from our cottage. Or walk to the same in around 90-120 mins
Image taken of Landimore Pill from Weobley Castle towards Cheriton Pill Berges Island Woodland and dune system is in distance to the right This area in the photo is just east of Llanmadoc at Landimore The cluster of small white buildings to the left of the image is our neighbouring village of Landimore One of the three open commas Welsh close commas villages of North Gower along with Llanrhidian and Llanmadoc. They were in times gone by very Welsh speaking villages and were culturally closer to Welsh speaking Carmarthenshire than Swansea. As an example but a telling one, many of the residents in this part of Gower would have supported the Scarlets Llanelli RFC not Swansea RFC in rugby and still do. We still have many proud villagers young and old able to speak Welsh in this very friendly part of Gower and they are very welcoming to visitors. The village shop is a nice place to visit for a coffee and cake and one minute you will hear english and another you might sometimes hear welsh. The usual tradition is that if somebody comes into the shop iwho is known to speak Welsh as first language and the person serving also speaks Welsh they will be traditionally be greeted in Welsh. This is
we also get Lapwings and Kittiwakes and all sorts in the estuary
