August 2010

Maen-Offeiriad has new owners...
All existing bookings will be entirely unaffected, and we welcome past guests and new to come and stay in this wonderful place.
We now have two cottages available. There's the studio, a lovely old barn which sleeps 1-4. It's simple and funky with a big woodburning stove and it's lovely and light with big Velux windows.
Then there's the cottage. It's a lovely two-bedroom stone cottage, snug and cosy with a woodburning stove, oil central heating and a big slate-floored kitchen.

Do email (tim@maen-offeiriad.com) or ring (01239 891221) if you're interested or you want some more information.

The cottages are set in five acres of gardens, copses and fields. It's very green and very peaceful; guests are welcome to use our gardens and land. There's a beautiful walled garden that's a real sun-trap, and lots of nice picnic spots in the fields and under the trees.

Maen-Offeiriad is on the lower slopes of Foel Drygan, the easternmost peak of the high ridge of the Preseli Mountains in North Pembrokeshire. It's a beautiful, peaceful place, filled with birdsong. The open hillside of the Preseli Mountains is five minutes walk away, with over thirty square kilometres of hill and moorland without roads. The stunning North Pembrokeshire coastline is fifteen minutes away by car. The nearest larger town is Cardigan, about twenty minutes drive away. The area is part of the Pembrokeshire National Park, the only coastal national park in the country, and is amazingly rich in wildlife, from owls and red kites to otters, dolphins and seals.

Maen-Offeiriad (pronounced 'mine off-airy-add') means 'the priest-stone'. We've been told that the name refers to a large slab of Preseli Bluestone half-hidden beneath an oak tree, but no-one seems to know where the name comes from. The spot has been occupied for a very long time; there is a very old stone pigsty next to the cottage that's a listed building! The stone buildings are thought to be around two hundred years old, but they are probably built on the site of earlier structures.