Farm FRESH

Few of us live in locations beyond the sound of traffic or the seep of urban glow that disguises the speckles of the Milky Way across indigo skies. But at this secluded and remarkable Welsh tyddyn (a smallholder's cottage) it is possible to sense what life was like for our ancestors, far before the advent of electricity or cars. Situated on the brow of a hill, Bryn Eglur (which translates as 'Clear Hill') has an almost 360-degree vista of Carmarthenshire and captures a sense of time that has stood still. Yet its rural charms were very nearly lost to ruin.
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