The North Devon Coast is widely recognised as one of the most attractive coastlines in the UK. Spectacular sunsets, Atlantic storms and a history of shipwrecks and smuggling make the North Devon coast a special place. Excellent for lazy days in summer - and bracing walks along deserted shorelines in winter.

There are so many beaches within reach of North Devon’s finest holiday cottages that you could visit one for each day of a fortnight’s holiday and still not see them all. In North Devon, between Exmoor to the Cornish border, you will find vast, sandy bays and secret, rocky coves where you can surf, take the dog for a long, peaceful stroll or while away an afternoon building sandcastles in the sun. The North Devon coast lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with towering cliffs (the tallest in Europe), a unique location to spot seals and dolphins from the Southwest Coast Path. We have a variety of coastal cottages in North Devon, none of

The British countryside is scattered with historic chapels and barns, and many of those no longer used for religion or farming have been lovingly converted into holiday cottages. We offer various converted barns and chapels from Devon and Cornwall to the Highlands of Scotland, so you are bound to find one in your perfect location. In the meantime, here are a few of our favourites - not just because we like the photos but because we have been, seen and approve of their appeal.

A peaceful farm cottage nestled in the North Devon hills, Dolly’s Barn is set within more than three acres of paddocks and gardens near the towering cliffs, rocky coves and sandy beaches of the North Devon coast. This large Ilfracombe holiday cottage has six bedrooms, sleeps 11 guests and is one of our many holiday cottages with disabled access.

Luxury chapel conversion in Southern Snowdonia This

Learn how to:

• Gather all your favourite holiday cottages together in a single list, so you need never loose, forget, or spend time searching for them.

• Add or delete cottages from your shortlist.

• Save time by sending a single enquiry to all or selected cottages on your shortlist

When you conduct an initial search for cottages, you will be presented with a list of cottages with 3 images and a short description. You can work your way through the whole list, selecting those you think might be a contender.

Once you have completed your initial search, you can open your shortlist and click on a cottage to open its main page for further information. If you decide it’s not the right one for you, click on the remove button.

This is easy. – you can save a cottage at the click of a button.

From a Short Description: Click on ‘Add to My

Whatever you have planned for your holiday in Cornwall, there's nothing quite like ending the day in a cosy pub, warming up by an open fire or watching fishermen land their catch in the harbour. There are too many atmospheric, old pubs in Cornwall to count, but we have picked 10 of our favourites, which we highly recommend visiting if you can. Where appropriate, we have also recommended an equally attractive Cornish holiday cottage within easy reach of a pub that takes your fancy.

13th-century inn with low ceilings, open fires and great food and drink. Take a stroll on the Southwest Coast Path before settling in for an evening at the Tinner's Arms. The menu includes Newlyn crab, Mount's Bay mackerel and 28-day-hung Cornish steak. An impressive whisky menu complements the Cornish ales and ciders on offer.

One of Cornwall's oldest pubs with outstanding

In response to an enquiry from My Favourite Holiday Cottages as to whether their sites would incorporate ASL certification, the company responded (very promptly) to confirm that this is one of their current priorities:

*Hi Rick,

*Thanks for your email.

As per our Christmas email, we are planning to offer SSL certificates (which will allow you to have a https domain) to all customers as soon as possible. After extensive investigation and testing we have found a solution which should allow us to offer them for free, but unfortunately, we need to upgrade our servers in order to do this, so we are planning and testing for that as a priority.

At the moment, the information being sent via the PromoteMyPlace enquiry form is not submitted via SSL, as it wasn't a requirement in the past, and in fact, many websites on the internet still do not use SSL unless they're accepting very sensitive information such as credit cards.

But the

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Planning a last-minute early spring holiday? Check the Late Availability page on My Favourite Holiday Cottages for details of cottages offering last-minute discounts with savings of up to 20% (that’s your grocery bill for a holiday covered).

We often describe planning a self-catering holiday for large groups of friends or for dual family holidays as like putting eels into a string bag. If you’ve been charged with finding and booking a large holiday cottage, read our large group accommodation tips to help make your life a lot easier. NB: The golden rule is that whoever makes the booking gets the first choice of the bedrooms available!

Once you have read the article, here’s your gateway to finding some of the loveliest large holiday cottages in the UK from which to find your favourite one.

Did you know that when booking a holiday cottage

Fancy a holiday in a riverside cottage? View these waterside holiday cottages in the UK. Waterside cottages offer handily located self-catering accommodation for holidays by the riverside, the shores of a lake or alongside a canal towpath. Generally, with lovely views (and the occasional friendly duck for company), waterside properties are suitable for holidays at any time of year for families, groups of friends or a romantic escape for two. Perfect for spending days walking, wildlife spotting, fishing, messing about on the water in canoes, sailing dinghies, or feeding the ducks. Find riverside holiday cottages on the Norfolk Broads or overlooking a scenic South Devon estuary such as Dartmouth and Newton Ferrers. Then there's the Lake District in Cumbria or a whole host of waterfront holiday cottages on the shores of lochs in Scotland. Whether you want to walk alongside a river, lake or canal or indulge in a spot of paddling along an estuary shore, there's

As a holiday cottage owner, have you ever felt that the only time you can take a holiday is between November and February (other than Christmas) because you need to be there for your guests? It can be a problem, I know - or even the cause of a guilty conscience as you have fun abroad while news of gales at home filters in.

Take heart! Wendy Boast from Peak Cottages, a long-term subscriber to My Favourite Holiday Cottages, an owner of two immaculately presented holiday properties in the Peak District, found time to take a long holiday without it proving a problem. Here, she happily shares her Top-10 Tips for owners to make it less daunting for them (you) to take a longer-than-usual break. In Wendy’s case, this was a holiday in Norway for almost a month.

Here’s her handy checklist that helped things run a bit more smoothly: Take it away, Wendy!

1: Take note of the contact details, arrival dates and check-out dates of all guests arriving and