http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28048990.htmlJust here.I stumbled across this place when on a walking holiday with my kids on 2004. Once we'd found it we didn't go anywhere else. The guy running it at the time was trying to make a go of it by doing the usual smallholding sort of things. I think we stayed there 5 nights and I ended up giving him a cheque for £120 at the end of the stay, which included not just the camping for 4 in two tents but also a fair few packs of home-produced freezer meat (Oxford sandy & black bacon, lamb chops, he let us help ourselves to veg. from the garden so we had fresh taters, marrows, carrots, greens and peas).
The owner's wife had left, I think, unable to cope with the deserted lifestyle. He was a very friendly chap (had previously been a nurse in the Bristol area) who was into caving, hill walking, mountaineering and mountain biking and was probably short of company. Because we were on foot, and he was very impressed that we had walked there from Libanus, which was where we caught the bus to when we left Merthyr Tydfil station, he gave us quite a few lifts to good walks, took us to the pub a couple of times and showed us round the old firebrick mine near Pontneddfechan and gave us a lift back to Merthyr at the end of our stay.
I think the farm has changed hands at least once since we were there and I reckon it's not really possible to make much of a living from it. If I were 10 years younger and with the savings and pension that I have now I might consider it. The 10.5 acres are beautiful, but several of them are vertical. In my limited livestock experience I'd say it's totally unsuitable for cattle. I think that at £400000 it almost certainly overpriced.
It's also in completely the wrong place for cycle tourists. It's at the end of a dead end which leads straight to the A4109 Inter-Valley Road, which is a fast, busy road serving some very run-down Valleys areas.
