Rent Find self catering and cottages close to fishing in South West England

Blackpitt Farm Holiday Cottages, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, South West England

Sleeps 5
Weekly prices from £225 to £ 450

Self catering accommodation in Stow-on-the-Wold sleeps 5.

Features include: • Garden • Internet Access • Open Fire or Woodburning Stove • Romantic Breaks • Fishing near by • Golf near by • Pub near by • Easy Walking Access R

Accommodation overview: Near the old Cotswold market town of Stow on the Wold, hidden at the end of a private drive are two cosy self catering holiday cottages.

Well and Stable cottage are set in a secluded, peaceful location on a small farm and enjoy far reaching and uninterupted views.

There are large grass lawned areas with seating, pinic tables and barbeque, ideal for children and dogs (no restriction on size or number of dogs)

The cottages are fully equiped with all essential appliances including dish washer, a washing machine and tumble drier are also available to guests.

There is a TV with free view and DVD player in the lounges and double bedrooms. Both cottages have broadband connection.

Phone enquiries: 01451 831 855

Cob Loaf Cottage, Fowey, Cornwall, South West England

Sleeps 4
Weekly prices from £292 to £ 621

Self catering accommodation in Fowey sleeps 4.

Features include: • Garden • Pet friendly • Internet Access • Fishing near by • Short Breaks • Cottage Sleeps 4

Accommodation overview: Situated on the outskirts of the stunning natural port of Fowey and only half a mile from the sandy beach at Readymoney Cove, this comfortable attractive cottage, tastefully converted from a former mill, is tucked into one corner of a small group of stone-built cottages. 

Set in over an acre of beautiful communal grounds with children’s play area, picnic benches and barbecues for all the visitors to enjoy, the property has the added bonus of its own private lawned garden area to the front and rear of the cottage. 

Approached from the parking area, where there is one reserved space, a couple of steps and gently sloping path lead up to the fully-glazed low front doorway, which opens directly into a living room of great character with natural exposed stonework and a beamed ceiling. 

There is a little dining area with pine table and chairs, a galley-style kitchen with light-coloured fitted units and one step leads up to a warm and cosy lounge with seating arranged before an electric coal-effect stove set in the fireplace and a fully glazed back door. 

In one corner of the living room carpeted stairs lead up to the first floor landing, where is a bathroom with a W.C., hand basin and shower over the bath, along with two cottage-style bedrooms with pleasant garden views. One is a pine-furnished double bedroom with fitted wardrobe and the other is a children’s bedroom with two 2ft 6in single beds (more suitable for preteens due to the size of the room). 

A low patio door opens from the lounge into a small rear garden with a gravel terrace and half a dozen steps leading up to a sheltered lawn with post and rail fencing and garden furniture overlooking the landscaped grounds.  Pets must be supervised at all times, as should children when using the play area.

Fowey, half a mile downhill, is a charming waterside town with shops, restaurants, pubs and gift shops, and it is also half a mile by public footpath to the small sheltered beach at Readymoney Cove below St Catherine’s Castle.  Pleasure boats leave from Town Quay during the season, there are lovely creek and coastal walks nearby, including The Hall Walk, a ferry crosses the harbour to Polruan and The Saints Way footpath can be taken from Fowey to Padstow on the North Coast. 

Lanhydrock House and the Eden Project are a 15-minute drive away, and the picturesque villages of Polperro and Looe can be accessed by the Bodinnick car ferry nearby.  There is also a seasonal passenger ferry to the fishing village of Mevagissey.

Crab Cottage, Trevarrian, Cornwall, South West England

Sleeps 3
Weekly prices from £276 to £ 635

Self catering accommodation in Trevarrian sleeps 3.

Features include: • Pet friendly • Internet Access • Close to the Beach • Fishing near by • Short Breaks • Cottage Sleeps 3

Accommodation overview: Just over 500 yards from the stunning South West Coast path giving access to the popular beaches at Watergate Bay and Mawgan Porth nearby, this beautifully presented attached cottage in an extension to the 200 year old main house and is a perfect location to explore the North Cornish Coast with its well known restaurants and fishing harbours.

Fronted by a shared brick paved drive with parking for one car directly outside the cottage,  a gated side path leads round to the enclosed courtyard garden at the rear. Double glazed French doors with a step up opens into a bright and well finished living room comprising the whole of the ground floor with solid wood flooring. There is a modern well fitted galley kitchen, L shaped corner sofa in front of the wall mounted electric fire and a glass topped dining table and chairs in front of the window.

In one corner a carpeted staircase leads up to the landing on the first floor with two bright and comfortable bedrooms; a kingsize with digital TV and a single bedroom at the rear. To complete the accommodation is a fully tiled shower room with W.C, hand basin and double sized shower cubicle.
  
Crab Cottage has an enclosed rear courtyard garden with a garden shed perfect for storage of beach gear and bikes. A timber gate leads to an unmade lane from which you can access the South West Coast Path and walk to the pub in the hamlet less than 5 minutes away with a farm shop and bistro only a 2 minute drive.

Mawgan Porth only a 5 minute drive has a pub, café, surf hire and local store and for wider shopping facilities the resort of Newquay is 5 miles with access to the beaches at Fistral, Pentire and Crantock. Jamie Olivers Fifteen is only 1 mile away at Watergate Bay and Rick Steins café and restaurant is 9 miles at the famous harbour of Padstow where you can also cycle the camel trail to Wadebridge. The South West Coast path located a short walk from the cottage gives access to Mawgan Porth and Bedruthan Steps to the north and Watergate Bay and Newquay Bay to the south. The Elizabethian houses of Trerice and Prideaux Place are 6 and 9 miles respectively and the The Eden project, Lost Gardens of Heligan and Lanhydrock house are all less than an hour by car. 

 

Old School Cottage, Asthall, Gloucestershire, South West England

Sleeps 4
Weekly prices from £346

Self catering accommodation in Asthall sleeps 4.

Features include: • Garden • Pet friendly • Internet Access • Open Fire or Woodburning Stove • Fishing near by • Pub near by • Easy Walking Access • Cottage Sleeps 4

Accommodation overview:

Old School Cottage details

Old School Cottage is a small, detached stone cottage in the unspoilt Windrush Valley, a few miles from Burford.

Asthall is an ideal holiday location, being an idyllic secluded hamlet with a village pub and another inn on the river by Swinbrook, a ten-minute walk away by road or across the fields.

Closer to the cottage in Asthall, just down the lane, is the historic Manor house and church. Asthall Manor was the childhood home of the Mitford sisters.

Oxford is a 25-minute drive away.

Pink Cottage, Bodinnick, Cornwall, South West England

Sleeps 6
Weekly prices from £424 to £ 892

Self catering accommodation in Bodinnick sleeps 6.

Features include: • Garden • Pet friendly • Internet Access • Fishing near by • Detached Property • Cottage Sleeps 6

Accommodation overview: With superb views over Fowey’s natural harbour, this detached and double glazed Cornish cottage has been recently refurbished throughout. It is set into the hillside just off the road which runs through Bodinnick village and down to the ferry slipway and is directly behind the picturesque Old Ferry Inn.

It is approached by a short unpaved footpath which winds between the cottages. A gated path and short flight of steps lead up to the main entrance at first floor level. The inverted accommodation takes every advantage of the expansive river and sea views with the open plan kitchen, dining area and living room all benefitting from the lovely estuary vista. The kitchen is well equipped for cooking and entertaining.  

The living room leads out onto a south facing patio and pretty hillside garden which gets sun throughout the day.  On the same floor are two bathrooms; one shower room and one bathroom, both with hand basins and WC’s. The hallway has an airing cupboard and coat hooks.
 
The sleeping accommodation is in the older 17th Century part of the cottage.  On the first floor are two of the bedrooms.  A children’s room with 2ft 6in bunks, and a double with hand basin reached via two short flights of stairs. On the ground floor are two further bedrooms, one with a 5ft double and hand basin and one with twin 2ft 6in beds.   

There is electric central heating. Due to the narrow original staircase in the older part of the cottage, this property is not suitable for the less mobile.

There is parking for two medium sized cars at a private garage about 50 yards from the property, and it is also possible to park on the road in the upper part of the village.  The Bodinnick car ferry runs regularly from 7am to 7pm across to Fowey where there is a wide selection of shops, restaurants and pubs.

The cottage is in the heart of Du Maurier country – Daphne herself grew up at the house at the bottom of Bodinnick hill - and it is in short driving distance of The Eden Project, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, and the picturesque fishing ports of Mevagissey, Polperro and Looe. There are plenty of local walks from the relatively easy Hall Walk to Polruan to the more challenging clifftop path along to Polperro and beyond.

Please note: Towels not available

Chapel Cottage, St Mawgan, Cornwall, South West England

Sleeps 4
Weekly prices from £308 to £ 636

Self catering accommodation in St Mawgan sleeps 4.

Features include: • Open Fire or Woodburning Stove • Fishing near by • Short Breaks • Cottage Sleeps 4

Accommodation overview: Nestling in the bottom of the lush Vale of Lanherne, two miles from the dramatic North Coastline, Chapel Cottage is one of two cottages on the site of the original Forge in the charming and picturesque village of St Mawgan.

A couple of steps rise above the road and from here the front door opens into a light and airy open-plan living room, warm and comfortably furnished with full double glazing, an attractive fitted kitchen area in one corner and a pine dining suite set before French Windows opening out to a tiny enclosed patio with a side access gate.

Carpeted stairs lead up to a landing, a bathroom W.C. with hand basin and shower over the bath and two pine furnished bedrooms each with an electric convector heater. The master bedroom has a king-size bed and the second smaller bedroom has two single beds, a 3ft and a 2ft 6in.

There is one reserved parking space per property immediately before the row of cottages and all the local amenities which include a village store, post office, tea room and pub are less than five minutes walk. Sheltering in the village is also the lovely Japanese Garden and Bonsai Nursery which is open all year round and the nearby beaches of Mawgan Porth and Watergate Bay are close at hand.

The historic fishing port of Padstow is 8 miles and the holiday resort of Newquay is 6 miles away.

Honeycomb, Tintagel, Cornwall, South West England

Sleeps 6
Weekly prices from £338 to £ 763

Self catering accommodation in Tintagel sleeps 6.

Features include: • Pet friendly • Internet Access • Fishing near by • Golf near by • Short Breaks • Cottage Sleeps 6

Accommodation overview: Set in a private gated mews in the heart of Tintagel, this light and airy double glazed cottage is one of a small development tastefully converted from a historic 19th century hotel and bakery, just a short level walk from all the local attractions steeped in romantic Arthurian legend. 

Tucked away in a quiet corner facing a pleasant stone flagged sunny courtyard, Honeycomb is ideally situated in secure grounds set back from the main street, yet it is within a five minute walk of the dramatic South West Coast Path and only a short drive from the wonderful surfing beaches of North Cornwall. 

The front door opens from the central courtyard directly into a charming and spacious sitting room with comfortable lounge furniture and a warm rug on the slate flagstones.  To one side an inner door leads through to a country style kitchen with pine fitted units, slate floor and a pine dining suite in the centre of the room, and from here, a stable door opens to a small sheltered patio area with rockery. 

A carpeted staircase leads up in one corner of the lounge to the first floor landing, a family bathroom W.C. with hand basin and shower over the bath and three attractive bedrooms with natural wooden floorboards.  There is a master bedroom with a double bed and en-suite shower room W.C. and hand basin, a smaller double bedroom and a twin bedded room.  A large gravelled car park at the rear has ample parking space for one car per property. 

The village itself offers a wide selection of shops, restaurants and inns and Tintagel Castle famous for its myths and legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is within easy walking distance.  The sandy beaches of Trebarwith Strand, Bossiney Cove, Polzeath and Daymer Bay are a short drive away as are the picturesque fishing villages of Boscastle and Port Isaac. 

There are also spectacular coastal and moorland walks, coarse fishing, golf club and sports centre nearby.  BT Openzone is available in Tintagel – vouchers can be purchased online.

Rosehill Cottage, St Breward, Cornwall, South West England

Sleeps 6
Weekly prices from £386 to £ 839

Self catering accommodation in St Breward sleeps 6.

Features include: • Garden • Pet friendly • Internet Access • Open Fire or Woodburning Stove • Fishing near by • Short Breaks • Cottage Sleeps 6

Accommodation overview: Rosehill Cottage is perfectly situated within the small picturesque village of St Breward, and is nestled away with a large garden and views across the valley. The property which is full of character features and dates back to the 18th century but was recently renovated to provide a wonderful home for a family or couples alike. Rosehill Cottage is a tranquil retreat for guests wishing to escape from it all, yet provides easy access to many magnificent beaches on the North Cornish Coast, as well as the popular fishing towns of Padstow and Port Isaac which is famously known for the Doc Martin series.

With parking for 3 cars outside the property, Rosehill Cottage is accessed via a few small steps and leads straight into a traditional dining room with wood burning stove and original tiled flooring. To one side, a doorway leads into a cosy lounge which provides an open fireplace, television and views across the garden. Straight through from the dining room, a well-equipped galley style kitchen is to the left which also provides a stable door with access straight back into the garden. On the other side of the hallway, the sole bathroom with shower over, WC, basin and traditional tiled flooring is based on the ground floor adjacent to the kitchen and sits at the bottom of the wooden staircase that leads up to the first floor landing.

On the first floor there are two double bedrooms both with standard sized double beds, plus two additional spacious single bedrooms which sit either side of the upstairs landing. To the front of the property there is a large stone driveway which can park up to three cars. The generous sized garden with garden furniture provides views across the valley.

The moorland village of St Breward is the highest and largest on Bodmin Moor. The village provides its own Post Office, village store and The Old Inn pub with restaurant (dating back to the 11th century). The Camel Trail is also very popular with cyclists and easily accessible from the property. A 10 mile drive will take you to the popular fishing villages on the north coast such as Trebarwith, Port Isaac and Polzeath and the larger towns of Bodmin, Wadebridge and Camelford are all within a 10 mile radius.