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Rent Welsh Borders holiday cottages: Self catering apartments and houses in all areas of Wales. Book direct with the owners. |
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This traditional cosy cottage is situated in the picturesque village of Three Cocks near Hay on Wye. With the expansive rolling countryside of Herefordshire and the Black Mountains of Wales on the doorstep this cottage is ideally placed for exploring the Welsh Borders...... |  |
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£295-425 per week |
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Cider Mill Cottage and Gardeners Cottage are two charming individual and privately situated cottages of great character in the beautiful, unspoilt Wye Valley. They are situated in the grounds of Garraway House.... | |
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£350-860 per week |
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Arden House is an elegant detached property, ideal for large, and extended, family holidays in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, close to the Welsh Borders. Recently renovated, the property is light and spacious and boasts stone mullion windows, open fires and a games room.... | |
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£1050-2350 per week |
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This detached 16thC farmhouse is surrounded by open countryside on a 400 acre working family farm, where you can enjoy extensive views of the Begwyn Hills and can see the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons. | |
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£725-1200 per week |
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Honeysuckle Cottage is a beautifully furnished, modern, detached village cottage in its own garden, amidst delightful Herefordshire countryside. It offers generous accommodation for up to six guests in an unspoilt area o. | |
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£320-607 per week |
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Cwmpiban Barn provides superb, five star, very private holiday accommodation for families and groups of up to eight people. It is beautifully located, nestling into the side of Rhulen Hill with panoramic views.... | |
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£375-800 per week |
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A delightful Grade I listed historic 17th century manor house with panelled rooms, magnificent staircases and pretty gardens. This impressive unspoilt mansion is surrounded by a 400 acre estate of farm and woodland with sweeping views.... | |
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£1955-4800 per week |
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Two luxurious character cottages comprising a 17th Century gate lodge and a converted 19th Century coach house on the Broadway House Estate on the edge of the village of Churchstoke .... | |
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| £262-671 per week |
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A recently converted Grade II listed 17thC barn which blends rural life with the comforts of modern living. In a quiet rural hamlet 15 minutes from Ludlow. A comfortable lounge, modern fitted kitchen a double and a twin bedroom.... | |
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A charming 18thC cottage with beams, flagstone floors and inglenook. Snug Lounge cosy with Inglenook wood burner - logs provided. Hand-made kitchen, Victorian bathroom and 2 double bedrooms.... | |
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The Well House offers spacious self-catering holiday accommodation for 12–14 people, making it the ideal venue for family reunions and celebrations. This beautifully restored half timbered barn providing all the comforts of..... | |
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A barn conversion providing two luxury cottages each with ground floor accommodation including double bedroom, bath/shower room, sitting room with dining area, fully fitted kitchen, in peaceful rural location with far reaching views across open fields... | |
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£350-480 per week |
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Welsh Borders The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. Its distinctive geography, wedged roughly between Welsh mountains and English river beds has not only isolated this rural, sparsely populated slice of land, but created a unique identity. Here we find what Garner (1984) calls "Anglo-Welshness," in essence a hybridization with Welsh town names and cultural influence on the English side of the border and the opposite in Wales. As Garner states, this quality is "strongest in genuine border towns like Oswestry, Montgomery, Knighton, Kington, Presteigne and Hay-on-Wye, which survived against the odds and are still not quite sure which side they are on. The same feeling is likely to extend to anyone living west of Shrewsbury, Loeminster, Ludlow or Hereford, because towns like these, far more than the political boundary, marked the beginning of England." The region is lovely: mountains, moorlands, farms, wooded river valleys, small villages, half-timbered buildings and castles exist side by side. In fact, according to Rowley (1986), the Marches (as the borders are known) contain the densest concentration of motte-and-bailey castles in Wales and England - not a great surprise, for this was an area of frequent conflict. As early as the Iron Age, disputes occurred on both sides of the borderland. The Romans established forts at Chester, Gloucester and Caerleon along the Marches in an attempt to restrain the rebellious Welsh. And the Anglo-Saxons under the leadership of King Offa of Mercia, built the first barricade along the borders at the end of the 8th century: Offa's Dyke. (It still divides England and Wales.) Yet, it was only with the arrival of the Normans that the Marches were consolidated into a separate entity. |
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