Simon and Ruth extend a warm welcome for week long stays or short breaks to their peaceful stone cottage with private enclosed garden. Cosy and warm in Winter with log burning stove. A cool and charming cottage in Summer for al fresco living. This is a true holiday hideaway.
A perfect location for walking, cycling and touring in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean or simply relaxing around the house and garden.
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Pike House Cottage is available as a self-catering, 2 bedroom holiday let. The cottage sleeps 4. The bedrooms are set up as 1 double bedroom and 1 twin bedroom. We are confident this is a holiday cottage you will be delighted with.
It is possible to let the cottage occupying only one of the bedrooms and receive a discount. Please see the Prices page for details.
Special offer - get 10% off breaks in August! Book our cottage this month for a short break or a week long holiday in August and we'll give you 10% off the usual price. (This is in addition to our "one couple discount" where it applies.)
Please see the Prices page for details.
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We meet and greet all staying guests on their arrival and show them around.
If you come to stay at the cottage, on your arrival we will give you a full tour of the cottage and garden and explain how everything works. We will also come back to say farewell and receive the keys back from you.
Your stay is not just a business transaction to us. We give you a personal welcome into a place that is very special to us.
Our holiday hideaway is former toll house built in the early 1800s. It was very sympathetically extended in the mid 1970s. The cottage retains the charm of the old toll house while providing the comfort of a modern home.
The original part of the cottage still has the old beams. It is this original part that is now the living room. A stone surround fireplace with log burning stove adds to the charm and cosyness.
We are delighted to be able to offer our holiday cottage as self-catering accommodation in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK.
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Pike House Cottage is just south of Coleford and a few minutes drive away from Clearwell caves and from the increasingly popular Puzzle Wood. Access by car is excellent.
Our cottage is just 2 1/2 miles from Park End. Parkend is the village many would consider most central to the forest area of the Forest of Dean. It is also the top most point of the Dean Forest Railway.
The cottage is set apart from other properties. It has a wonderful sense of peace and rest about it. There is a slight sound of vehicles but most people don't find any distraction from this and the birds singing outside the kitchen door get much more of their attention.
The Wye Valley is easily accessed from the cottage. The river Wye is less than 3 miles away if you drive to its nearest point through the villages of Clearwell, Newlands and then towards Redbrook. When the road reaches the A466 - which follows the Wye Valley - turn left for Redbrook and right for Monmouth.
Interestingly, you don't have to cross the River Wye to be in Wales. The Welsh border reaches to Staunton on the Forest of Dean side of the river and only a couple of miles from Coleford.
Photos on the top right are places and scenes in and around the Forest of Dean. Hover your mouse over any one of those photos to see where it was taken. Please see our Forest of Dean page for more information about the attraction of the Forest of Dean and things to do and see.
At Pike House Cottage there are two pubs serving meals just a short walk away. The closest is The Miners Country Inn which has been well recommended by guests. Also St Briavels - 10 minutes drive away - has a couple of places serving good food. Trevor Hare via Twitter writes, "The George at St Braivels takes some beating. Tappas on a Wednesday evening. But book, they are popular."
In the nearby market town of Coleford there are lots of places to eat as well as good shops and other amenities.
The nearest corner store is at Milkway. It's about 3/4 of mile away. Ideal if you want to pick up the Sunday papers.
Travelling from the North taking the M50 and then the A40 until Monmouth is a good route. Follow sign for Forest of Dean from there.
Travelling from South Wales, heading for Monmouth also makes a good route. Monmouth is only about 10 minutes drive from the cottage.
Travelling from the South the M4/M5 Almondsbury interchange is only 35 minutes drive by car from the cottage if you take the M48 over the old Severn Bridge.
It is only 50 minutes drive from Cheltenham taking the A48. See our "Forest of Dean" page for a map. If you're travelling from the north you might want to take the M50
Reaching the cottage by train is also possible by getting off at Lydney. Cheltenham Spa station to Lydney Junction station, for example, normally takes 32 minutes by train and trains run approximately hourly at most times of the day. The cottage is 6 miles from Lydney station.
The guests who went home on Saturday wrote today, "I will admit to sprinkling some peanuts on the outside window sill of the bedroom and took great delight in watching Nuthatches, Great Tits and a Magpie taking the nuts while we were laying in bed! Where else could you see that?!"
Our weekend guests wrote, "We really enjoyed our stay at the weekend, very comfortable and relaxing. Just what we needed."
