New Cwm Farm History
The picture above was taken from Anchor, looking towards Wales, with New Cwm Farm in the centre of the picture. It illustrates the beautiful location of the farm, and its remote location near the head of the valley down which the Rhuddwr Brook flows.
First Ten Years at New Cwm Farm
New Cwm Farm - about 1990
The present owners arrived at New Cwm Farm in November 1995. Since then, many changes have been made, improving the buildings and the land. There has also been much joyous Family News.
In the summer of 1996, part of the pasture below the house was fenced off and the garden was laid out, following a design by Mavis Brewer, and implemented by Neville and Linda Griffiths. The pergola was built, now covered with honeysuckle and roses. Many of the plants along the pergola and in the shrubbery were propagated from cuttings collected from friends and family.
In 1999, the conservatory was added to the front entrance to the main house, which blurs the line between indoors and outdoors. This is really appreciated by the family matriarch, now 92 years old, who can enjoy sunny winter days while staying snug and warm indoors.
The conversion of the storeroom into a toilet and shower room was completed in 2002, for the use of people working in the stable yard and visitors.
The fireplace on the ground floor of the original cottage had been walled off by a stone wall and inefficient stove. All this was removed exposing the lovely inglenook fireplace, complete with bread oven.
Nancy Adams manages the fifteen acres surrounding the farm house, and is carefully restoring the land using conservation methods. Hedges have been replanted with native shrubs such as hazel, beech and hawthorn to provide bird habitat.
A shelter belt planted on the western boundary, with 2,000 trees such as sessile oak, alder, holly, cherry, hawthorn, blackthorn, rowan and scotch pine. Wildflowers have been reintroduced, including snowdrops, daffodils, bluebells and snake's head fritillary. There is a stone seat from which to contemplate the view down the valley.
Work started in October 2005 and luckily the weather through the winter did not delay work.
