Ceridwen
The Ceridwen Centre is a welcoming holiday, training and retreat centre on a farm in West Wales. Whilst here, you'll experience our abundant wildlife and return home feeling revived and relaxed. Groups return year after year to enjoy this lush rural setting blessed by fabulous sunsets. Guests’ accommodation options have now been increased to cover all sizes of groups – Ceridwen, the Byre, the Old Dairy, farmhouse B&B, the Gypsy Caravan, the Yurt and the Camping fields.
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The Ceridwen Centre is a welcoming holiday, training and retreat centre on a farm in West Wales. Whilst here, you'll experience our abundant wildlife and return home feeling revived and relaxed. Groups return year after year to enjoy this lush rural setting blessed by fabulous sunsets. Guests’ accommodation options have now been increased to cover all sizes of groups – Ceridwen, the Byre, the Old Dairy, farmhouse B&B, the Gypsy Caravan, the Yurt and the Camping fields.
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The Byre
Once the calving shed, the Byre has all the oak beam charm you would expect of an old farm building, made contemporary. The cottage can sleep 7 in 2 bedrooms, both spacious and light with velux roof windows. One bedroom has a bunk and two single beds and the other has 3 single beds. In this second bedroom, two singles can be joined to make a super-king size double. At the end of the upstairs gallery is a...
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The Teifi Valley area has an abundance of natural resources, flora and fauna, to offer and tempt everyone, whatever their interests. Enjoy nature at your own pace or ask us to organise outdoor activities for you. West Wales Trails’ mountain bike hire is based here on the farm. Please go to our links page to find out more about your passion in this area or contact us directly.
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Celebrate
We host all sorts of celebrations on the farm – birthdays, anniversaries and wedding receptions. We’ve been working hard over the last year or two to improve and restore more spaces for our guests to stay in. We’ve also now, since March 31st 2011, obtained a licence for wedding and civil partnership ceremonies in The Old Dairy. See our sister website – www.welshgreenweddings.co.uk for details
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Gypsy Wagon
For the ultimate romantic bolthole it doesn’t get much better than this – your very own gypsy caravan with nothing else except the woodland , wildlife and private eco-cabin, at the top of your own valley where the only hint of civilisation is a chapel in the far distance. Check out our sister website Gypsy Cwtch for even more information. The gypsy wagon (or vardo) dates from the late 19th...
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Green
All heating and hot water demands in Ceridwen and the other dwellings on the farm are served by the biomass boiler. This means coming to stay at Ceridwen will positively reduce your overall carbon footprint for you, your friends and family than if you were to stay somewhere with a more conventional heating system. The pure Welsh water is pumped up through our own borehole for bathing and drinking
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Boho Wedding Ideas blog mention…
Welsh Green Weddings and the Gypsy Cwtch Romany wagon have got a mention on Boho Wedding Ideas blog, thanks to a guest post by Sara @ ruby+diva wedding directory, a fab new eclectic boutique which all ladies should check out!
Spring has sprung, has it with you?
Finally… it’s that time of year when nature re-emerges and we can’t help but feel a little uplifted with the new life and colour around us. We didn’t get snow here this winter (good or bad?!) but the idea of a glorious summer keeps us going through till next winter. Fingers crossed!
This week is yard awning week
We put the yard awning up for the first time on Monday – it looks great a few tweaks to make and it’s ready for our summer weddings. We just need to put the new yard paving down now!
Country Wedding Photoshoot
Many of you will know that there was awedding photoshoot here on Penybanc Farm on Sunday 25th September. Various locations were used – The Old Dairy, the Gypsy Wagon, Ceridwen’s balcony, outside a Yurt – as well as starring roles for David the Tractor and, of course, Dylan and Dougal. Props, favours, accessories, clothes, flowers, cheese, jewellery, etc were generously lent by many local suppliers.
Both “Your South Wales Wedding” magazine and the national “Perfect Wedding” magazine will feature images from the shoot.
Your South Wales Wedding Magazine featured a 3-4 page spread in their January edition. ‘Perfect Wedding’ plan to use some of the images but we’re not sure when and how yet.
Lovely publicity both for us here and for the very helpful photoshoot suppliers.!!
Artist in residence – The Fountain of Knowledge
- Mark starting to carve the limestone
Mark Foulds has been carving the ‘fountain of knowledge’ a 15ft 4 ton sculpture of a plume of water of limestone and Carerra marble for Coulston college in our large barn. The sculpture left in the almost complete stage on Wednesday afternoon 23rd Novemeber and we all wished it well for it’s installation in Coulston College London.
The Fountain of knowledge is made of Ancaster blue weatherbed limestone with Carerra marble top. The weight is 6 tonnes height 2.7m width 1.2m.
The concept is that the sculpture will take the form of a large plume of water emerging from the ground at coulston college, crowned with a bubbling, overflow about to come back to earth. This is symbolic of the learning process.
The ‘shaft’ is carved in blue limestone, beautiful with millions of fossils visible. The ‘crown’ of water will be intricately carved from glistening white marble that will sparkle.
Sited among the trees at the front of the college, it will be a stiking feature from a distance and also close up.
Chipping 100 tons of roundwood
We have chipped 100 tons of roundwood = 300 cubic metres of woodchip for our biomass boiler. This has filled one of our bans and will last us the next 2 years.