Rath Cottage

22/04/2024

We still have good availability at Rath Cottage for August 2024. This photo is of the beach next to the Cottage. To book, visit our website www.rathcottage.co.uk

31/01/2024

Late August and September are wonderful times to view seals pupping on the beaches around Rath Cottage. It is pretty amazing to lie in bed at night and listen to the seals singing on the beach below the cottage.
Still good availability for 2024, if you hurry.

01/10/2022

Check out the Rath Cottage website at www.rathcottage.co.uk to see some great new photos of the rooms, as well as the fabulous view over to Skokholm from the garden.

Welcome To Rath Cottage Rath Cottage is situated in a wonderful location. It is the last house on the mainland before Skomer Island, in a sheltered setting with glorious northerly views over Martin’s Haven and St. Bride’s Bay towards Ramsey and the St. David’s peninsula. The Pembrokeshire Coas...

22/05/2022

We still have availability for Rath Cottage in August 2022. Rentals run from Friday to Friday.

02/01/2018

Choughs at Rath Cottage

02/01/2018

Seal pups playing in St. Bride’s Bay

25/12/2017

The cottage will particularly appeal to birdwatchers – Choughs, Guillemots, Manx Shearwaters, Peregrines, Puffins, Short-eared Owls all on your doorstep – and to those who love to walk along the Coastal Path with its amazing scenery and beautiful beaches and coves.

The surrounding headland and, indeed, most of the Marloes peninsula, is owned by the National Trust, and it all lies within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.

Our closest “neighbour” is Lockley Lodge, the information centre recently totally rebuilt for the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales (WTSWW), where bird and marine mammal sightings are listed.

In the autumn, Grey Seals give birth to their pups on the beaches all around the headland.

The boats for the nature reserve islands of Skomer, Skokholm and Grassholm all embark from Martin’s Haven beach, less than five minutes’ walk away.

The Skomer Marine Nature Reserve resource centre is also on the way down to this beach.

In 1995 the Deer Park (the headland directly adjacent to the cottage grounds) and the Marine Nature Reserve, protecting the rich biodiversity of the waters surrounding the coastland, were both declared Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs).

25/12/2017

Rath Cottage is situated in a wonderful location. It is the last house on the mainland before Skomer Island, in a sheltered setting with glorious northerly views over Martin’s Haven and St. Bride’s Bay towards Ramsey and the St. David’s peninsula. It is 400 metres from the beach where the boat leaves for Skomer. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path runs along the southern boundary, above Renny’s Slip and Dead Man’s Cove, and the western boundary is the 19th Century wall of the Deer Park, the glorious headland heath owned by the National Trust. To stand in the grounds and gaze at the sun setting over the islands of Skokholm and Skomer is a real delight.

25/12/2017