Moelwyn View Cottage

28/06/2024

Some more lovely guest reviews...😀

25/06/2024

Well it's getting hotter..at last! 6 days of availability left 17th to 23rd August and 1st and 3rd week of September...instead of a post cleaning swim I did a trip to Portmeirion instead as have an annual pass (equivalent cost of 2 visits so a bargain). Tide out so great for a beach walk. Only 15 mins drive from Moelwyn View Cottage. If interested in the last few weeks of summer availability contact via the website.

19/05/2024

It's been 'Busy Busy' at Moelwyn View...limited summer availability. 2 weeks in August. 2nd-9th and 6 nights available 17th to 23rd. Have a few weeks in September then it's the start of Autumn! Officially its the 22nd September so got to make the most of the next 4 months...weather has been gorgeous now finally stopped raining....PM me if interested in booking a week or contact via website.

06/01/2024

Happy New Year! ..Moelwyn View Cottage is closing for the winter....open again in the spring. I have a few jobs to do and a few holidays to take...was over yesterday to sort out cottage after New Year guests left and had my usual beach walk followed by coffee and cinnamon bun at the Bae Borth Deli Bar in Borth y Gest....well worth a visit..

28/10/2023

Lovely comments from my half term guests...😀.

14/10/2023

Weekend of jobs as new holiday let regulations means additional smoke alarms in the bedrooms and other safety measures. Stopped for a cuppa and noticed these gorgeous pink flowers growing on my 'living wall' in the garden. First year i have seen them. Might do some transplanting to another section to see if they take....Bookings slowing down now as Autumn is here but still some November/December availability.

29/09/2023

Happy Friday everyone😎

16/09/2023

It's taken me a while but finally updated some of the cottage pics. They were 4 yrs old after all, and some rooms have changed a bit as i hone my skills with soft furnishings and lampshade making (what's happened to me 😆)!
Cottage booked all of September but a few weeks available in October. Availability and prices on the website. Will be closing after Xmas until March 2024.

21/07/2023

July 21st week had a booking..last minute😀.still have 2 weeks in August and last two weeks of September available..then we hit autumm weather, but still a gorgeous time to visit...Had a post cleaning lunch at the SeaView Bistro at Borth y gest followed by lovely beach walk...all within 20 mins drive from Moelwyn View Cottage.

14/07/2023

Amazingly i still have a week available from July 21st. Late availability offer of £650 reduced from £750.

21/04/2023

Some more lovely reviews😀. Week beginning April 28th not booked !! What's going on? Remember its the first May Bank holiday so great time to escape... Have reduced from £500 to £380 if booking directly....

12/04/2023

Easiest way to check booking calendar and send an inquiry...

From £56 per night. Moelwyn View Cottage is a lovely period holiday cottage in Llan Ffestiniog in the Snowdonia National Park - Sleeps 3

12/04/2023

Availability at Moelwyn View Cottage : 28th April for 7 nights, June 17th for 6 nights😎

31/03/2023

First guests in today for the start of the new season..Garden looking very wet and some plants not fared very well over winter, so will be replanting some hardier ones...will eventually figure out what can survive! Spotted some nice Welsh produce in local Co Op so going to start varying the welcome pack but for now, you cant beat a nice Bara brith, and some lemon welshcakes 😀.

09/12/2022

Doing a few jobs before Xmas guests arrive. Both Xmas and New Year now booked😁. Local artists fair on today at Minfford station followed by beautiful beach walk at Borth y Gest...and.....unwind....😍

07/10/2022

Beautiful sunset from the garden at Moelwyn View..at least the rain has now gone! I am going to close the cottage for a few months over winter but open up to Xmas and New Year. Can do short autumn/early winter breaks starting from November.....£90 a night with a minimum of 3 night stay😁

16/09/2022

More lovely reviews from last 3 guests.....it was a great drive over today...amazing views from the Migneint down to the Llyn Peninsula. Post cleaning beach walk on the cards😁

09/08/2022

It was another Friday and another 'changeover clean'..this time remembered to photograph some recent guest reviews.. Stopped to admire the lovely panorama heading out of the village to the Migneint moors. Cottage now fully booked till October. Half term week still available...😎

10/07/2022

Amazing weather this weekend...Only 3 weeks left available until October. July 15th 7 days late availability special £450. July 22nd 7 nights £600 and August 19th 7 nights £680. If this weather continues it will be Costa del Ffestiniog without the airport chaos!!!

24/05/2022

Interesting read ref history of Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland railway...

ONE HUNDRED & NINETY YEARS OLD...
Happy Birthday to us..!

In the eighteenth century, when Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog did not exist, this part of Wales was a remote mountain area. As far back as 1798, William Alexander Madocks had acquired land and soon afterwards carried out reclamation projects, first on the north shore of Traeth Mawr, which then extended several miles inland toward Pont Aberglaslyn. His first embankment still exists for a mile alongside the track of the Welsh Highland Railway until the bank turns north near Portreuddyn Castle. This was successful in reclaiming land for agriculture; Madocks then began his work culminating in the great embankment, the Cob, across the estuary, completed in 1811-12.

The workmen for this project were housed in a building at the eastern end of the Cob, where the workshops of the Railway are now. Since Madocks was the Member of Parliament for Boston in Lincolnshire, the building was named Boston Lodge. At the other side of the estuary the Cob diverted the River Glaslyn, which scoured a channel to form the natural harbour that was to play a dominant role in the history of slate mining and the Ffestiniog Railway. The town that swiftly grew up around this harbour was named Port Madoc, known today as Porthmadog. Madocks sponsored an Act of 1821 which declared it lawful for any tramroad arriving at the east end of the Cob to operate over it; this is why the FR to this day has a wayleave over the Cob but does not own it. There cannot be many railways still operating under an Act of 1821..!

Meanwhile, high in the mountains around Blaenau Ffestiniog, slate deposits were being exploited from about 1760 in small quantities and laboriously taken by pack animal or farm carts over rough roads down to the River Dwyryd. Here the slate was loaded into shallow-draft river boats for transport downstream where it was loaded yet again, this time into sea-going sailing ships at the anchorage of Ynys Cyngar, a mile south-west of Portmadoc. The first tramway in a quarry in Blaenau was in use by 1804.

In 1830, shortly after Madocks's death, Samuel Holland, who was quarrying slate at Rhiw, joined Henry Archer, a young businessman from Dublin, to promote the construction of what was to become the Festiniog Railway. With initial capital raised at least part in Dublin by financiers with an office in Dame Street in 1831-2, the company was incorporated by an Act of King William IV's Parliament on 23rd May 1832 with powers to build and operate a narrow gauge railway line from Portmadoc to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

James Spooner from Worcestershire was responsible for the survey and construction of the Railway. There is some evidence that Spooner had worked for the Ordnance Survey - in any event he was an uncommonly accomplished surveyor who laid out the Railway's route of rather more than 12 miles on a remarkable continuous gradient from Blaenau to Boston Lodge. The route, whose final mile crossed the Cob, let loaded slate trains run down by gravity, while the horses that were used to haul the empty waggons back up the line could feed and rest in dandy waggons - as seen in the accompanying image.

Opened in 1836 as a basic mineral tramway, the railway transformed itself over the following forty years until it was conveying 130,000 tons of slate a year and pioneering passenger operation on narrow gauge, becoming a world exemplar for narrow gauge railway practice…

…and the rest, as they say, is history - but what a history. One Hundred & Ninety Years of pioneering and continuous development, on a scale that surely could not have been imagined by the railway’s original promoters..!

While we’re proud of our past, we’re always looking to the future - including our plans to develop our visitor experience around the railway. We have a long history and a great story to tell - you can find out more about our railway’s past and present @ www.festipedia.org.uk and our NLHF funded heritage project in Boston Lodge @ nlhfproject.festrail.co.uk/

29/04/2022

Another clean followed by another walk..this time to the old Roman fort of Tomen y Mur above Trawsfynydd lake..Fab views but very hazy..Some ruins just below the fort with an amazing fireplace....😎

18/04/2022

Happy Easter from Moelwyn View! What a busy weekend. Two guests left and two arrived. In between the changeovers i managed to explore a new walk 20 minutes drive away at Ganllwyd..just north of Dolgellau. Really interesting...takes you up to an old gold mine. Parking at NT carpark in village. Then Sunday did an old favourite, Cadair Idris...😎

29/03/2022

First guests of the year are in this week....time to book a summer holiday, relax and enjoy the view!. Last week in June available and second week July through to the end of August. April and May fully booked 😎

01/01/2022

21/12/2021

Had some really lovely guests stay at Moelwyn view and timed it well with the most brilliant weather weekend! Still Xmas availability. 24th to 28th (four nights) £400. 😀

11/12/2021

XMAS AVAILABILITY! Dates available now until Dec 28th. Book an Xmas break from 24th Dec to 28th for £400 ( was £450) and enjoy having the beach to yourself 😀...can recommend Sunday lunch at the Sea View Cafe, Borth y Gest... (15 mins drive from cottage).

22/10/2021

Series of Local History talks at the Pengwern pub starting Nov 1st

Rydym yn falch iawn o cael cynnal y cwrs pump wythnos yma yn Pengs. Dewch draw am peint neu panad i cael clywad am hanes diddorol yr ardal!

https://www.adultlearning.wales/en/course/44690 #

We’re pleased to be holding this five week course at Y Pengwern. Come for a pint or a cuppa and learn about the history of the area!

17/10/2021

Amazing weather on 'change over' day..managed to squeeze in a post cleaning beach walk😀.... More lovely guest reviews. Have a few more bookings then winding down till March 2022 as winter booking are not so 'full on'. The cottage is still available for bookings though at £360p/week from November till end if March exc Xmas/New Year and feb half term. Short breaks also available. Further info on website.

12/10/2021

Just spotted that Steve Backshall was in Llan Ffestiniog😁.

Ylwch pwy nath ddod i aros. Diolch yn fawr iawn i’r criw BBC, gobeithio gweld chi eto yn fuan. / Look who came to stay. Thank you very much to the BBC crew, hope to see you all again soon.

24/09/2021

What a day!! Started off with a sheep delay on way to cottage + umpteen road works and ended up with finishing my clean at 6.45pm having started at 10.30! Discovered leak from bathroom into a downstairs cupboard..Plumber out..boxing in work for bathroom piping broken into and all dry! Then 160 yrs of soaking wet lathe and plaster removed in living room ceiling (thankfully in the cupboard) and there was the leak.. cold water inlet pipe under bathroom floor merrily dripping away..all sorted now but boxing in work will need a little attention when have a booking gap! Guests arriving for a week and just thankful they can still use the bathroom! Now where is that alcohol😜