PENTRE-MAWR FARMHOUSE
Snowdonia Country Bed & Breakfast (archived)
It
seems a world away. The northern coast of Wales in the Snowdonia National
Park. The tiny
village of Dyffryn Ardudwy, a gas station, a
school, and a couple of pubs, hides a secret or two. The Pentre-Mawr
Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast, a renovated 18th Century stone farmhouse
with a history of several hundred years is set on 125 acres of the flat
plain between the sea coast sand dunes and the Snowdonian mountains.
Pentre-Mawr is a working farm with open fields and narrow track drives
bounded by stone walls. Host Sue and Denis Owen provide a sense of welcome
in
a
family home atmosphere. The aroma of a full Welsh Breakfast cooking in
the kitchen while Denis heads out in knee-high boots to tend the pasture.
Two en-suite
rooms are available at the 4 star B&B Pentre-Mawr,
each with television, coffee & tea, armchairs or settees, located
upstairs in the older part of the house, comfortably warm and cozy with
a feeling of another time with the stone lentils of earlier fireplaces
still visible in the modern renovation and the greenery of the landscape
visible beyond the thick walled window sills. The rooms are quiet, but
with the windows open the ocean waves of the coast can be heard in the
distance mixed with a sounds of farm life. The breakfast room is set
up in what was in the 1700’s the kitchen of the original layout
of the house. A massive open fireplace where stewing pots and roasting
spit once turned is now a nook for flowers. A glass enclosed garden room,
allows a spot to relax with a view of the garden while protected from
changeable weather of North Wales.
The
Pentre-Mawr Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast in Dyffryn Ardudwy, rated
as highly recommened by the Wales Tourism Board, is 5 miles south of
Harlech Castle and 5 miles north of Barmouth along the A496 coastal
road, an
ideal spot for exploring the Snowdonia Park and the famed coastal castles
of Edward I (see HARLECH
CASTLE),
horse riding, fishing. The narrow gauge railways of former slate mines,
Portmeirion Village and Caernarfon are within
less
than
an hour’s drive. The Cambrian Coast Rail Line runs through the
village with the station and village pubs within an easy walk from the
farm. Packed lunches are available if taking a day outing. 
The
dunes of the coastal beach bound the property for solitary walks, though
there
is a holiday van camping park which should you visit on an August bank
holiday weekend, will seem as if half the world had evacuated to the
North Wales coast. And don’t miss a walk to the village for a look
at the ancient Paleolithic burial site, located up a gated walk next
to the Dyffryn Ardudwy grammar school. The Pentre-Mawr Farmhouse B&B
is open from January to October with prices a very economical 30£ per
person with weekend or weekly rates available. © Bargain
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SEE ALSO:
PORTMEIRION HOTEL - "PRISONER" VILLAGE
HISTORIC WALLED CITY OF CHESTER
PLAS MAWR - HAUNTED TUDOR MANSION OF CONWY
MANOR TOWNHOUSE B&B - PEMBROKESHIRE COAST
PLAS TAN COUNTRY HOUSE - SHELLEY'S GHOST
