If you’ve read anything about Holiday With Your Dogs, you’ll know that the private land that comes exclusively with your stay is over 22 acres.
Twenty-Two Acres
It sounds impressive. It is impressive.
But exactly how big is it?
An acre is one of those measurements — like a furlong, a fathom, or a rod (yes, that’s a real thing) — that we might have heard of, but have no real feel for at all.
Originally, it was the amount of land that a man and a yoke of oxen could reasonably plough in a day, measured using units like feet, yards, chains and rods.
Saying that an acre is a furlong by a chain doesn’t really help most of us picture it.
So imagining 22 acres can be even harder.
Let’s try to picture it in a different way.
A Yardstick (Or Thirteen Of Them!)
22 acres is around the size of the playing surface of 13 to 15 standard football pitches.
If football isn’t your thing, here are a few more ways to look at it.
22 Acres Is…
Around the size of the Chelsea Flower Show.
One acre smaller, considerably fewer people in linen. What you get instead is woodland, wildflower meadows, wide open fields and a dog learning — possibly for the first time — that a big world doesn’t have to be a frightening one.
341 tennis court playing areas.
You can pack the playing areas of 341 doubles tennis courts from baseline to baseline and tram line to tram line into 22 acres.
Three and a half Tesco Extra superstores
The huge Tesco Extras — store, car park and petrol station. Set three and a half of those end to end. Swap the trolleys and Clubcard deals for bluebells and buzzards, and you’re somewhere close to the picture.
Space for around 3,300 parked cars
Or a new-build housing estate of 225 to 250 homes. Twenty-two acres that could, in another life, have been exactly that. Instead, over the past sixteen years, we’ve allowed it to naturalise into something that genuinely surprises people when they first walk into it. We think it was the right decision. The moles certainly seem happy.
An hour just to walk the boundary
It takes around an hour to walk the entire boundary. However, that’s not the idea. You’d miss all the meandering paths, the benches, the picnic spots tucked into the woodland, all the wonderful places you discover as you explore the space.
Before you even reach the 22 acres, there’s space to breathe.
The Barn, its garden and driveway sit within a further two acres of private woodland. From the moment you turn off the road, you’re on your own track — trees either side, the outside world already starting to fall away.
When you’re settled in and ready, it’s time to explore.
This is Parc yr Hiraeth — a Welsh name you don’t need to be able to pronounce. It’s something you feel.
Twenty-two acres of private woodland and meadows, entirely your own for the duration of your stay.
So. Twenty-Two Acres.
Every bench, picnic table, meandering path, woodland, wide open meadow are yours for the duration of your stay. Exclusively.
No other guests. No other dogs. No other people at all, unless you’ve brought them with you.
Just you, your dogs, and twenty-two acres of the beautiful Carmarthenshire countryside where you can truly Escape the Everyday.
Parc yr Hiraeth is exclusively for guests when staying at The Barn. Check availability
