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Hobo also has 2 holiday cottages located in the Sirhowy Valley.

Colliers Cottage - 3 bedroom sleeps 6 +1 sofa bed.
Ancient Druid Cottage- 2 bedroom sleeps 4 +1 sofa bed

The ex-colliers cottage has recently been refurbished & refitted.

Disused rail line in front of cottage

The cottage has three bedrooms, One double, One twin, an attic room with double and single.

Large walk through lounge & dinning room to kitchen, which has fridge, combi micro-wave & oven.

Hot water is provided by coal fire in lounge. Bathroom has powerful electric shower over bath.

There is also a travel cot suitable from a few month old to 2yr olds.

Looking across the valley

Colliers Cottage

Sleeps 6 in 3 bedrooms. The property is newly fitted throughout to provide a comfortable, relaxing setting. The kitchen has an electric cooker, with combi-microwave (convection oven/microwave/grill), fridge/freezer, cutlery/crockery and storage area. The downstairs is open plan with a spacious sitting area, dining table and chairs, colour TV and video. A coal fire provides heat for the sitting area, for the central heating and also hot water. The downstairs bathroom has a bath, an electric shower over the bath, hand basin and toilet. All electricity and coal for the fire are inclusive. Upstairs one bedroom has a double bed, a second bedroom has twin single beds. Up another flight of stairs to the attic bedroom, there are a further two beds, a single and a double. A roof window provides great views of surrounding hills and the stars. All bedding, duvets, pillows etc are provided. Personal towels are not provided, but are available on request.

There is a small garden behind the cottage on two levels. Parking is in front of the cottage in a parking bay, with level access into the cottage. Mobile reception is good. There is a bench at the front of the house to sit and enjoy the views. The house is a traditional miners dwelling in a small hamlet called Bedwellty Pits. From the house it is a short walk to the river. This is a good area for mountain biking and walking, from easy walks along the dismantled railway line, to hill and forest walks from the front door.

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Ancient Druid Cottage
(Holly bush)

Two double bedrooms with sofa bed in the living room.

Ground floor has open plan kitchen with oil fired Rayburn cooker, which supplies heating & hot water. Kitchen has electric cooker, combi micro-wave (grill & oven), fridge and ample storage space. Kitchen dinning table with four chairs, cutlery pots and pans.

Cozy sitting area with sofa, chairs and victorian fire place with TV & video. Downstairs bathroom with shower over, toilet and hand basin. Bed linen is provided, personnel towels can be supplied on request, electricity and fuel inclusive.

The cottage is set in a fantastically peaceful location just off the main A4048, surrounded by forest views. Even people who live in Holly bush don't know the cottage exists! Outside is a small garden/patio area with barbecue. The cottages name (we suspect) comes from the house next door.

At one time next door was an Inn built by druids they chose this location as Lay - lines converge here. The present owner told me that during renovation work the brickwork had been dated to pre 1066! It must be one of the oldest Inn's the row of cottages was converted from the barn of the Inn. A railway used to run along the front of the building, which was used to collect colliers and miners along the Sirhowy valley during the hey-day of coal and steel, taking them to the various pits in the valley. These trains in their day were some of the busiest and longest in the world. In the 1950's the tracks were removed to leave lovely walking paths. The Sirhowy river cuts deep into the valley, walk along the rail-line into Hollybush, just past the pub is a path down to a bridge across the river. The opposite side of the valley is managed by the forestry many different bird songs can be heard among the trees.
My first experience of this area was in autumn while mountain biking, I'd noticed a photographer taking photo's of the forestry. She was from Canidia and likened it to the colourful spectacle of "fall".

View north along the valley at what I call "one tree mountain".

Looking south down valley, cottage is hidden by trees on the right

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