Holiday Cottage, Anglesey

4 Star Self Catering Accommodation

 

We look forward to welcoming you to Coed y Berclas, our lovely detached 18th Century self Holiday Cottage Anglesey, North Wales Coast. The Cottage Orchard, for the private use of our Holiday Cottage guests, has the most breathtaking view across the Menai Strait to the Snowdonia Mountains beyond - the ideal place to relax.

We've taken care renovating and updating our pretty Welsh holiday cottage to make it warm and welcoming for our guests. Sited in an area of outstanding natural beauty, only two miles from both Beaumaris and Menai Bridge, Coed y Berclas is ideal self catering accommodation for a relaxed family holiday, romantic break or an escape from the stress of work.

Our Holiday Cottage at Coed y Berclas, rated 4 star, sleeps up to 4 in 3 bedrooms, one double and two singles.

Coming in from the Cottage garden, you enter the spacious, well equipped kitchen/dining room. Also on the ground floor is the sitting room with a sofa, two easy chairs, TV/DVD, shelves of books and information about the area and a sideboard which contains games for rainy days.

You'll see a number of handmade quilts, including the 'Cottage Quilt' which is based on a North Wales bwthyn or cottage. The two single bedrooms have 3' single beds with new coil spring memory foam mattresses and ample storage. The double bed in the main bedroom has a handmade quilt and headboard, a wardrobe and large chest of drawers. Also on the first floor is the shower room with large walk-in shower, wash basin and wc. There are fitted wool carpets in all the bedrooms, on the stairs and in the sitting room.

Accessed via an external door is the utility with separate washing machine and drier, an airer and sufficient space to dry outdoor clothing, footwear and store a couple of bikes. There is central heating throughout the holiday cottage and utility.

We will welcome you to Coed y Berclas Holiday Cottage Anglesey with homemade Welsh cakes, fresh flowers and a genuine warm Anglesey welcome.

Weeks begin Saturday. Short breaks available.

Facilities

• The cottage utility has separate washer and dryer and ample space for walkers to dry wet clothes and keep a couple of bicycles.
• Ample on site parking
• Full central heating
• TV/DVD
• radio/CD player
• microwave
• fridge/freezer
• washer and drier
• good mobile phone reception
• gas, electricity and linen are included in the price
• Spar shop/post office in the village (half mile)

Pets are not permitted on site.
Coed y Berclas welsh holiday cottages and environs are strictly No Smoking.

Around Coed y Berclas Holiday Cottage

Around Coed y Berclas, there is a balance between cultivation and nature. Alongside the cottage orchard, with apple, pear and plum trees, lies woodland, the province of the natural world. As a result, birds, bats, butterflies and rabbits live alongside the human inhabitants and the mewing cry of the Buzzard soaring overhead is frequently heard.

Sitting in the orchard you can gaze at the stunning view endlessly: sailing boats on the Menai Strait, distant Lowryesque figures on Bangor Pier, the mountain range of Snowdonia, mussel boats over the sandbanks, starlit skies on warm summer evenings... Owls, Jays, Pheasant and Raven also live in our woodland and there is a developing Red Squirrel population on Anglesey, in Pentraeth, Newborough woods and the Menai Strait shores.

Walking from Cottage at Coed y Berclas is delightful, along a country lane. Turn right out of the top drive onto the Old Beaumaris road where traffic is infrequent and walk through a positively 'old' atmosphere. This is part of the Anglesey Coastal Path. There is a footpath off into the fields and woodland, for walkers who wish to leave the road, through an exquisite area of land where modern farming is impractical and small fields intersperse with woodland and gorse.

You come eventually to a lake (reservoir) where you will see bird life, and if you are a photographer might find much to indulge against the setting sun - my favourite time (webmaster Daf). Further along the lane is Baron Hill Golf Club. The energetic could walk it from the cottage in 15 to 20mins.

 

The Red Arrows

Daf took this picture of the Beaumaris Red Arrow display May 2008, from our terrace. We are near Beaumaris so we get to see the display in all its splendour. The previous air show was 2006.

 

Brief History of Coed y Berclas.

We have traced Coed y Berclas cottage to the mid 18th Century when it was the heart of a 25 acre farm in the care of a yeoman farmer and owned by the Master of the local hunt. It then carried the name Bryn Mel – Hill of Honey which came from the many beehives on its slopes.

The name was then taken by a landowning gentleman E(?)JW Platt (age 26), his wife Florence (age 29) and their 5 year old daughter Enead(?), originally from Llanfairfechan, who aquired the estate and built a fine manor house on the land in 1898 - now the Nursing Home. They had seven servants, a bailiff and his family, a gardener and his wife and a domestic stud groom with his family, all living on the estate -(no wonder two of us sometimes find it difficult to keep on top of the work!).

It was then sold to the Johnsons, a wealthy family from Liverpool associated with the White Star Shipping Line. Miss Johnson, well known in the area, lived there until her death in 1969.

When we purchased the five acres, we named the site ‘Coed y Berclas’ – after the wood bounding our land on the seaward side. Even though Daf is Welsh speaking, the meaning of the name ‘Berclas’ eluded us for some time but it appears that it refers to a parcel of land, 'perc' belonging to a Celtic monastery or 'Clas'. The monastery at that time would contain religious families not monks.

We could only guess a date for that period but a similar 'clas' became Bangor Cathedral and it was set up in about 530AD by a man of noble birth named Deiniol who was given the land, probably by Maelgwyn, King of Gwynedd. He enclosed his 'clas' in a fence constructed by driving poles into the ground and weaving branches in between them. The native technical term for this type of fence was 'bangor' thus he also unwittingly gave the city of Bangor its name.

 

 

The following list of the advertisers we use are good sources of other holiday cottages anglesey and other welsh holiday accommodation in general.

WalesTouristsOnline

Discover Anglesey

GoAnglesey

Visit Wales

NWT

Beautiful North Wales

Coed y Berclas Holiday Accommodation is No Smoking only. Strictly No Pets.