How it all happened!

One of the questions we often get is - how did it all come about? What with the children, a full-time business to run and the animals and growing,  it is not suprising that many think we are mad to have taken Cledan Valley on as well. In fact, it is because of the growing and animals that it happened at all!

Karen was feeding the pigs one day in a friend's field when she returned to her car to find someone leaving a postcard on the windscreen. It was a local landowner who was looking to retire and wanted to sell off 60 acres of welsh hillside, his tipi camping site and another field. He had heard we were looking for land and was leaving his number with us to get in touch.

A week later we followed him up the tipi site where we had stayed a few times and he showed us the perfect field we had been looking for to continue our smallholding activities (including keeping the pigs on our own land!) At the same time he told us he wanted to sell the other 60 acres (definitely not in our price-range) and the tipi site as his daughter was not taking it on.

We had been wistfully talking about owning a glamping-type site in the long-distance future one day and here it was suddenly being offered to us on a plate and as local as we  could ever gave hoped for. Always up for a challenge, before we knew it, we were buying an agricultural field AND a tipi site.

Our first night in our new shepherds hut after signing the papers...

 

Well it has been a while since our last blog. Mostly because our unexpected new endeavour has kept us furiously busy. We are pleased to introduce Cledan Valley for its first proper season in 2017. This little glamping gem is the product of hard work and passion and we are pleased to have refurbished the loos, introduced new and upgraded accommodation while leaving the magical site as natural and unspoiled as ever.

Come and see us...

www.cledanvalley.co.uk