We have been told that Ty Coch was on the original pilgrims route to Bardsey Island which has been an important religious site since medieval times, when three pilgrimages to Bardsey were said to equal one to Rome. It remains a site of pilgrimage to this day with the modern route passing through Clynnog Fawr. The earliest detailed map we have found shows Ty Coch connected by a lane to the village centre and remnants of a wide green lane show this lane continued north-west towards the hill fort of Dinas Dinlle. The name Ty Coch (Red House) is also often associated with a bakery, the small mill building and remnants of a mill pond upstream support the idea that this perhaps served pilgrims on their slow progress to Bardsey Island. We have more recently discovered that Ty Coch was used as campsite and scout camp. We have met people who camped here as kids and the photo below was sent by one of our guests whose family had owned the house in the 1950s. So it seems Ty Coch may have been welcoming travellers and guests for over 700 years.

We always struggled to find a great place to stay with our friends and family that wasn’t too spread out or too cramped. If we found somewhere the right size it was either too basic or too posh (it’s hard to relax with a lumpy foam pillow or your kids in a house full of antiques). And then the great outdoors weren’t always so great.

So when we found Ty Coch in 2008 we set about creating the place we’d always tried to find. We designed it around what we wanted, firstly so we could enjoy it ourselves and secondly because we figured if it worked for us it would work for lots of other people.

We hope you enjoy staying at Ty Coch as much as we do.

Julie and Miles