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Renovating beautiful self-catering holiday cottages in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon

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    • 04 Walk around Rower Hill, Stockland
    • 05 Beacon Hill, Stockland
    • 06 Yarty Valley to Stockland
    • 07 Churchinford – Bishopswood – Marsh – Yarcombe
    • 08 Pub Hike: Upottery, Churchinford, Bishopswood, Marsh, Yarcombe
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    • 10 Circular walk to The Kings Arms Stockland
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    • 12 Pound Lane loop
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Fixing things to walls

29th Sep 2024 leyfarmcottages

It feels like we’ve spent a good chunk of this weekend fixing things to walls and doors. Our [very lovely] third guests are staying with

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Our first guests!

1st Sep 2024 leyfarmcottages

This week saw the culmination of all our hard work over the last five years, as we hosted our first guests in the Farmhouse over

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From top (of the farmhouse) to bottom (of the shippon)

9th Jul 2023 leyfarmcottages

If you’ve seen our social media posts you’ll know the exciting milestone for this week. After taking the farmhouse roof off last week, our carpenters

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Of farmhouse roofs and rafters

2nd Jul 2023 leyfarmcottages

This week our builders started on the farmhouse. The work planned is far simpler than the other buildings – replace the asbestos tiles with solar

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Beam reclamation and general garden tidying

27th Nov 2022 leyfarmcottages

Our building plans continue to progress slowly – we’re still waiting for the council to make their minds up about our fourth planning application (to

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No more excuses – time for weeding! 

29th May 2022 leyfarmcottages

Now we’ve finished our two new veg beds, we’ve finally had time to catch up on all the other jobs that we’ve just left… mainly

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