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Ty Olaf Holiday Cottage

A superb, newly built, woodland, holiday cottage in and Arts and Crafts village in the beautiful Elan Valley at the heart of Wales.

A superb, newly built, woodland, holiday cottage in and Arts and Crafts village in the beautiful Elan Valley at the heart of Wales.

Latest News

What’s On in the Elan Valley

4th April 2018 By Peter Hussey

Elan Links is a new organisation that has been in development since 2013.  It is a Heritage Lottery funded scheme which aims to secure the heritage of the Elan Valley and boost the opportunities available for the future. They have developed an excellent website to promote the valley and to outline all the wonderful things […]

Creeping Buttercups stifled our strawberries!

8th June 2017 By Peter Hussey

A principle idea of permaculture and no-dig gardening is to develop ground cover.   Uncovered soil attracts unwanted weeds , allows the soil to dry out, and is not contributing to the Eco-system.  In accepting this principle I was prepared to accept some degree of what some would think of as weeds.  For example I tolerate […]

Hint for a drizzly Bank Holiday

4th June 2017 By Peter Hussey

There seems to be a tradition forming in the UK.  The week before a Bank Holiday has glorious weather, as they say the sun is cracking the flags, right up until the start of the weekend when it goes completely down the drain!  Well here’s a hint for a drizzly Bank Holiday, just put the […]

Hoping for dolphins, porpoises or seals

30th May 2017 By Peter Hussey

Frequent visitors Neil and Barbara were here in early May.  A characteristic of their stays is that they travel widely, always attracted to bird reserves, and wildlife resources.  They went on one of their favourite trips, to Llangrannog.  They came back very excited, and no wonder! As they walked along the cliffs they spotted gannets […]

An art day at Ty Olaf, a race in election time

25th May 2017 By Peter Hussey

It was busy in our corner of the Elan Valley today!  First thing this morning some of the shepherds started gathering the sheep. By nine o’clock people had started to park cars on the grass opposite the house and unload gear, a large gazebo, chairs, water containers, back packs.  All very puzzling, but it turned […]

New visitor

24th May 2017 By Peter Hussey

We had just returned from shopping when Maggie spotted this tiny visitor sitting motionless on our patio. My first thought was that it was dead, but its little eyes were taking everything in.  It was the size of one of the larch pine cones that fall into our garden from the stand of larches alongside […]

Time for the Martins to move on

21st August 2016 By Peter Hussey

One of the joys of living here in Elan Village in summer is the arrival and presence of the Martins.  We don’t get them up here at Ty Olaf very much for most of the time, they prefer to scour the air near the bridge for insects, but every now and then a posse have […]

EPIC

13th August 2016 By Peter Hussey

We were on one of our regular walks as far as Caban Coch dam.  As we went past the Visitor’s Centre we saw that the footpath had been closed by a large van with a sizeable gang of young men who were unloading it.  We decided, as we got closer that they were unloading a […]

Elan Valley Walking Festival 3rd – 11th September 2016

11th August 2016 By Peter Hussey

The second Elan Walking Festival will take place in early September.  There will be a great variety of free, guided walks for all abilities over nine days.  You can get more information, or book a place on any of the walks by ringing the Visitors Centre on 01597 810880.  Walkers will need suitable clothing and […]

The Lost Arc of Rhayader

11th August 2016 By Ty Olaf Cottage

One of its previous incarnations was as “The Drill Hall”, at some point it was the town cinema. When we came to live here it was, almost unbelievably, a supermarket, run by a wonderful gentleman, in his nineties, still manning the cash point and driving the van, preceding the “new” thing of supermarket home deliveries, […]

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Latest

  • Lockdown 2

    The Welsh Government, recognising the dangerous situation created by the Covid pandemic’s second phase, have closed down the country for a two week period. We are therefore not able to welcome any visitors for the period 24th October to the 10th November. We feel much safer because of this action. Like all other places of […]
  • After lockdown

    It was safe for us to travel more than 5 miles, the Welsh Government told us, and we set off for a quick visit to our family. As we left the valley, quite early in the morning, our mouths gaped. What was going on? A stream of cars driving in the opposite direction to us. […]
  • Lock down

    Well, here we are, after over 100 days we are told that everything is OK out there and we can travel more than the five miles that we have been restricted to.  So tomorrow we will poke our noses out, and rather against my better judgement make an expedition to Carmarthen.  Maggie wants new towels […]
  • Village Lighting

    The Elan Valley became the first privately owned landscape to become part of the Dark Skies initiative.  The area was well served as a natural area that could look up to a sky not too badly affected by light pollution.  To make it even better our village lighting was changed.  The old sulfurous lighting was […]
  • Coffee morning for the Bracken Trust at Ty Olaf, 3rd August 2019

      What a brilliantly successful day!  The culmination of two months of preparation and hard work.  For Peter and Maggie Hussey, owners of Ty Olaf, it coincides with the harvesting of fruit from the garden, jam making and post Mid Summer hedge and garden tidying and pruning.  For the Bracken Trust Social Committee it is […]

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About Us

Maggie and Peter retired to the Elan Village after running the Drovers Tea Rooms and Restaurant in Builth Wells for 13 years. Professional standards and a warm welcome have been the basis for their success in the hospitality field.

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