Eco holiday cottages in Pembrokeshire West Wales. Two beautiful, comfortable cottages sleeping four Self catering accommodation in West Wales Pembrokeshire.
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18/07/2024
* Edit - Now SOLD OUT *
We're pleased to announce a new archaeology event for 2024 in collaboration with on Wednesday 4th September, 10am-3pm.
Join Louise Barker and Dr Toby Driver, archaeologists from the Royal Commission and Tomos Jones from PCNPA, for a guided walk taking in Bronze Age burial cairns, prehistoric roundhouses and well preserved field boundaries.
At only £10 (plus normal day landing fee of £30), this new event is not to be missed!
Keep an eye out for marine wildlife eggs washing up.
These often get washed up this time of year. Keep an eye out for them on your beach walks, return them to the deepest part of the tide you can, and attach them with string or use the tendrils already on the egg.
Alternatively, you can drop them off to us in the Ocean Lab, SA64 0DE where we can look after them till they hatch out and then we can release them safely.
01/05/2024
A bit of May sunshine has brought the meadows at Stones Cottages to life. May is one of our favourite months with the wild flowers and returning wildlife. We still have some availability for anyone wanting to get away.
What a start to There was a rustling in the grass. A head popped out and looked at me, before disappearing again. Another glance out, and then it hopped on to the path, looked me up and down before darting off into the shelter belt.
23/06/2023
First small skipper of the year spotted in the wild flower meadow!
23/06/2023
The number of meadow brown butterflies in the meadows here is quite extraordinary this year.
23/06/2023
A dew covered common darter drying out in the early morning sun.
22/06/2023
A blue emperor in the bracken at the edge of the meadow.
09/02/2023
We have late availability in Sunset Cottage for Valentine's Day!
Cosy up in front of the log burning stove, and enjoy the sunsets after exploring the dramatic countryside and costal paths.
Here's a peak at the next Permaculture mag issue, PM114 – out end of October.
Our cover features Lex and Ben from Fat Fox Mushrooms. Inside the issue they tell you how to grow tasty oyster mushrooms on household waste, like cardboard and tea bags!
We also have:
* Pippa Chapman and her micro forest gardens
* Off-grid living ideas with a narrowboat build
* How agroforestry methods can transform farms and food landscapes
* and so much more!
SUBSCRIBE and get free digital access to every single past issue (that's 113 magazines to read through) PLUS all subscribers get a 25% discount code for all our books.
No nature = no economic growth, no food security and no hope fighting climate change. Our message to 10 Downing Street in The Telegraph from CPRE The countryside charity, Friends of the Earth, Green Alliance, Greenpeace UK, Marine Conservation Society, National Trust, RSPCA, Wildlife and Countryside Link, WWT (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust), The Woodland Trust & WWF-UK.
The UK Government’s proposed removal of vital environmental protections could be catastrophic.
We know that people across the UK are passionate about protecting our wild spaces. We are asking the UK Government to listen and to act boldly to reverse the critical decline in nature and to realise that pitting growth against nature is a false choice. Take action: https://peoplesplanfornature.org/
05/10/2022
16/09/2022
Visit our Catch & Release Aquarium!🦀🐟
We have some amazing local marine wildlife in our aquarium. Come along for a tour to see and learn about the fantastic creatures we have in Pembrokeshire!🦞🦈
Open 5 days per week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. CLOSED Mondays and Thursdays for aquarium maintenance.
📌UPDATE: All places are now taken! Email to be added to a waitlist.📌
Are you interested in joining Sea Trust's Marine Biology Club?🐙🐬🐟
We are starting a free club for budding marine biologists (ages 10-14), where you can learn more about Pembrokeshire's amazing marine life! The club will start as soon as we have enough interest, so contact us now to book your place!🦀🐋🦈
Email ➡️ [email protected] for more information and to express your interest!
08/09/2022
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
05/07/2022
Blue emperor down by the pond.
26/06/2022
Bombus hortorum/ garden bumblebee
Early morning forager in the red campion.
26/06/2022
Grasshopper Warbler
They've certainly been making a lot of noise since April, this is the first time I've actually managed to see one. So elusive, even the grasshopper song they make has a ventriloquist effect, making them so hard to spot.
26/06/2022
Great spotted woodpecker and a stonechat in the meadow.
08/06/2022
Summoning Treebeard and the ents
24/03/2022
The blackthorn is out in flower, birds showing off, insects buzzing, and the sun shining. What a place to be
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Whilst practicing for the big dance competition Madame Curie couldn't help but wonder "what if the oakey cokey is what it's all about." #chicken #bigdancecompetition #pembrokeshire
Special Offer 50% Off
To celebrate winter we are offering guests who follow this page 50% off the price of our newest cottage The Workshop. With three bedrooms, underfloor heating and a log burner it is the perfect base for exploring Pembrokeshire this winter. This offer is valid between 7 November 2018 and 21 December 2018. Simply visit https://stonescottages.co.uk to book The Workshop Cottage and enter the voucher code: 2A7ZT (aplies for bookings of a minimum stay of three nights or more)
Re-charge your batteries, self catering eco friendly luxury in Pembrokeshire.
Re-charge your batteries. Eco-friendly self-catering accommodation in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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A selection of today's home grown #peatfree flowers to welcome our new guests. Grown by Shani Lawrence Garden Designs
Wishing everyone a rejuvenating Easter Monday from everyone at Stones Cottages.
Escape to Pembrokeshire. Harmony Cottage, a peaceful haven in a mad world.
A peaceful haven set amongst the beautiful rugged Pembrokeshire countryside. Sunset holiday cottage is the perfect base for your self catering holiday.
Beautiful peat free flowers to welcome our guests tonight. Lovely to see the daffodils out!
In 2002 Dot, Brian, Trudie and Tim moved to Llandruidion to share the farm house. Llandruidion (meaning church of druids) is the small holding adjacent to Stones Cottages. They began to manage the land for wildlife planting 1000’s of trees. The fields were returned to traditional flower meadows, spring now brings an abundence of colour. Traditional haymaking techniques are used to cut the hay later in the year. Dot started vegetable growing and a new vegetable garden has been recently been started. Rosa and Iwan, Trudie and Tim's children where born soon after the family's arrival at Llandruidion.
In 2003 the barns adjacent to Llandruidion farm house came up for sale and Dot, Brian & Daniel purchased them and the idea of the Stones Cottages Retreat Centre was born. Work began converting the barns into cottages using environmentally friendly materials and technologies. The long term aim is to create a retreat centre for holidays and courses. Dan worked on the barns in between worldwide travels but finally properly joined the venture in 2006.
In late 2009 Dan and Shani moved to Llandruidion with Matilda and two week old Eliza. They gradually created a family home and management residence for the cottages and have recently finished the conversion of the workshop barn into the Workshop holiday cottage.
A small collection of animals have been kept over the years including chickens, goats and alpacs. The field opposite the cottages is known as Boo's field after a much loved female alpaca who spent many years here. Boo's field is now home to our four Shetland sheep, Florence, Kindred, Meg, Marigold.
The barns were general farm barns, Sunset was a coach house, Dan & Shani's house, Ty Cerrig, was for frisky stallions!, Harmony was a stable and the remaining building were for hay and other livestock and there was a working water mill. Stones cottages are thought to date from the 1800's.
At the conception of Stones Cottages we knew that anything we were going to create had to be in harmony with the environment. Furthermore that our actions in its creation had to have minimal negative social, local and global environmental impact. Where we have been able our adventure has been self funding and sustainable through the use of our own labour and resources. When we have bought in expertise and labour we have done so from the local area. This is a family project and we feel we are building something for the future. Something that will last. Something that is not disposable. The fabric of what we are creating we hope will outlive us and many generations to follow. We hope you will come and stay in our green holiday cottages and give us feedback on what we are doing.
