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Cottage |2 bedrooms |Sleeps 4

Galloway Forest Park in Dumfries and Galloway

From £280 per week

7 nights minimum stay

Changeover Saturday

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Key info  Beach or lakeside relaxation, car advised, private garden, pets welcome

About the home

Drey Cottage now has a 26" television with a DVD player.

The rear of Drey Cottage has a conservatory and a private courtyard where you can relax and enjoy a drink after a days activities. Nestling on the edge of the Galloway Forest, Drey Cottage is ideally situated for peaceful scenic forest walks. The Galloway Hills make a superb backdrop to the forest scenery.

Magnificent wildlife in the cottage garden including red squirrels. Just a short drive away are quiet beaches. This is a beautiful unspoilt corner of Scotland where life goes on at a steady pace. Free DVD of cottage, garden wildlife and places to visit in the area on request.

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Drey Cottage is spacious, well equipped and extremely clean, comfortable and homely. It has oil central heating which you control to your own requirements.

The cottage has front and rear entry into a entrance hall. A spacious lounge with a dining table near the front window where you can watch the wildlife. A beautiful conservatory can be entered from the lounge through French doors. The external conservatory door leads out into the courtyard where there is a table and chairs for alfresco dining.

The modern kitchen is well equipped including a dishwasher. A hall from the kitchen leads to the two bedrooms and a shower-room.

The spacious double bedroom has a 4 poster bed and is adjacent to the shower-room. The equally spacious twin room has its own modern bathroom complete with a bidet. Access is from a private road and there is a parking & turning area for two vehicles in front of the cottage..

The market town of Newton Stewart is 4 miles away with Sainsburys, Aldi and Coop supermarkets, shops, cinema, library, churches, pubs, restaurants, gymnasium, swimming pool etc.

Further details outdoors:
Situated at the edge of the Galloway Forest Park which covers 300 square miles it is an ideal base to discover this unspoilt corner of Scotland. A short drive from the cottage, away from the forest, you will find quiet beaches, friendly harbour villages with pubs and restaurants and miles and miles of coastline. Ospreys nest on Wigtown Bay and you can watch them on their nests and feeding their young on cctv in Wigtown.

This is the Scottish Booktown with numerous bookshops. Red kites are just a short drive away at Loch Ken. There are many beautiful gardens to visit including the Logan Botanical where you will find many unusual tropical plants and palm trees. The Mull Of Galloway, being the most southern point of Scotland, is a great place to visit. There is a lighthouse and thousands of seabirds nesting on the cliffs including puffins and kittiwakes.

This area offers many sporting facilities including brilliant fishing whether it be game, coarse or sea. Sailing, golf, pony trekking, mountain biking, bowling and much more. The beautiful scenery of the Galloway Hills takes some absorbing and the sunsets are wonderful.

Conditions

Well behaved pets are welcome over the age of 9 months old, at no extra cost. Please treat them with Frontline or a similar flea and tick control prior to arriving. Please don't leave your pets unattended in the cottage. Drey Cottage is ideal for dogs as it has an enclosed courtyard.


The cottage is strictly non smoking.

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Rear of Drey Cottage with private courtyard

 

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Front of Drey Cottage, private and quiet.

 

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Lounge with dining table facing garden

 

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Conservatory with door to private courtyard

The Dumfries and Galloway region

Drey Cottage is in the Galloway Forest Park within the Dumfries and Galloway region of S W Scotland where people are extremely friendly and life goes on at a steady pace. The Galloway Hills are famous for their beauty and they appear to change their colour from day to day.

The area is generally quite warm benefiting from the Gulf Stream which is why there are so many wonderful gardens to visit.

The Galloway Forest Park area

The area is steeped in history with many abbeys and castles to visit with memorials to Robert The Bruce.
Cairnsmore is the second highest mountain in the area and is just 1 km. from the cottage. A walk to the summit provides fantastic views across the sea to the Isle of Man and beyond.

Bird watchers love it here where ospreys, red kites, buzzards, peregrine falcons and puffins can be seen and even the odd golden eagle.

Galloway Forest Park is one of the darkest places on the planet which makes it a ideal place for stargazers in the UK.

The Galloway Forest Park has many lochs, burns and places of interest including the Red Deer Park and the Wild Goat Park. There are ranger led walks where you can see spectacular sights. Glen Trool is magnificent in its beauty and a famous battle ground where Robert The Bruce had success against the English Army.

The Forestry Commission have recently opened the 7 Stanes mountain biking routes throughout the forests and these are ranked as the best in Great Britain with different routes to suit all abilities. Mountain bike hire available.

Fishing and sailing can be enjoyed from the many harbours and the miles of beaches and coastline.

You will find many places providing good food from superb fish restaurants in Portpatrick to smaller tearooms where you can enjoy home made soup and a roll.

Amongst the numerous places to visit is the Castle Douglas Food Towm, the Kirkcubright Artist Town, the Wigtown Book Town and many more small towns and villages all with their own bit of magic and even a distillery tour if you like.

If you ask for our free dvd you will see many places to visit and get a good feel of the cottage, the wildlife and the area. You can even spend an evening at the otter pool where you will stand a good chance of spotting these wonderful creatures.

How to get there

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Activities near Galloway Forest Park

Guestbook for Drey Cottage

A beautiful home from home cottage which lacks nothing and set in a heavenly location. We had a fabulous week.- Mr & Mrs Gosling. Doncaster.

We enjoyed our stay in your comfortable cottage. The area is wonderfully uncommercialised. Scenery and views fantastic, whether countryside or coast. Saw lots of birds and animals. We shall come again.-Mr & Mrs Parish Kent.

Just what the doctor ordered! It was all we wanted it to be and more. Shall be back.-Mr & Mrs Storey. Hull

As Miss Jean Brodie said 'This is the Creme de la creme' of cottages.- Mr & Mrs Laing. Fife

A magical place. Thank you so much. See you again.- Mr & Mrs Townsend. Bilton. E.Yorks.

Most enjoyable return visit. Seen barn and tawny owls near bridge. We saw 83 bird species.Hope to return for more of everything.- Heather & Gordon. St.Andrews. Fife

Rental prices

Prices for group size 4
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
January - March	7 Jan 12	17 Mar 12	280£ 280	0-	0-	1 Week
March -March	17 Mar 12	24 Mar 12	325£ 325	0-	0-	1 Week
March - March	24 Mar 12	31 Mar 12	345£ 345	0-	0-	1 Week
March - April	31 Mar 12	7 Apr 12	385£ 385	0-	0-	1 Week
April - April Easter	7 Apr 12	14 Apr 12	425£ 425	0-	0-	1 Week
April - June	14 Apr 12	2 Jun 12	415£ 415	0-	0-	1 Week
June - June	2 Jun 12	30 Jun 12	435£ 435	0-	0-	1 Week
June - July	30 Jun 12	7 Jul 12	455£ 455	0-	0-	1 Week
July - July	7 Jul 12	21 Jul 12	475£ 475	0-	0-	1 Week
July - September	21 Jul 12	1 Sep 12	495£ 495	0-	0-	1 Week
September - September	1 Sep 12	8 Sep 12	435£ 435	0-	0-	1 Week
September - September	8 Sep 12	29 Sep 12	415£ 415	0-	0-	1 Week
September - October	29 Sep 12	13 Oct 12	385£ 385	0-	0-	1 Week
October - October	13 Oct 12	27 Oct 12	345£ 345	0-	0-	1 Week
October - December	27 Oct 12	22 Dec 12	280£ 280	0-	0-	1 Week
December -January 2013	22 Dec 12	5 Jan 13	495£ 495	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Christmas week 2012 starts at 3.30pm on Saturday the 22nd December and to depart at 10am on Saturday the 29th December 2012.

New Year week starts at 3.30pm on Saturday the 29th December 2012 and to depart at 10am on Saturday the 5th January 2013.

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Well behaved pets over 9 months old are welcome at no extra charge.

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4 years listed You are contacting James Raw Landline +44 01671 403905 Mobile n/a Languages spoken The owner is based in the United Kingdom and has advertised with Holiday Lettings since 2007. This cottage has so far received 0 reviews.

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