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Cuffern Manor - Country House Bed and Breakfast

More from our Visitors
"Your Cuffern Manor is so wonderful in every way.  First so welcoming and your love and care are everywhere, so considerate in every way - beautiful flowers from the garden, a lovely homely living room with good books, with selections of tasty tea and biscuits, very good breakfast (good quality)...can't mention it all!  Thank you so much."
Yoko and Aki - Worcester.

"A fantastic venue to host our conferences.  Will recommend widely."
Ynys Dysg Consultancy

"Peace and tranquillity - a great way to destress.  Healthiest breakfast ever.  Delicious too."
Jon and Shirley - East Sussex

"the best breakfast in Pembrokeshire!."
Malcolm and Sarah - Devon

Helping to Advertise Pembrokeshire
Jayne has been used as a friendly face of Wales in two leaflets to promote a new website: http://www.experiencepembrokeshire.co.uk - which was launched at Wolfcastle in May. Local Products leaflet Culture and Heritage leaflet
It's not that the rest of us are unfriendly, it's just that Jayne was the only one at home when the photographer called.

Our New Front Door Sign
the new sign on our front door The new Cuffern Manor sign was a gift from our friends in Midsomer Norton - Barbara and John Potticary

2006 NSPCC Cream Tea
This annual event, held here in June, raised over £575 - a record for the Roch Branch of the NSPCC.
Enjoying the NSPCC Cream Tea Fiddlers all
Entertainment was provided by the o'ceili band.

One Down, Six to go
Easter saw the first use of our new en-suite bedroom.
En-Suite shower room En-Suite room
It is situated in the front of the house with lovely views across the font lawn.

A History of Cuffern Manor - July 2006
Some former residents have seen our website and got in touch.
Rob Penfold grew up here between 1976 and 1983.  He went to Roch CP school and then on to St Davids.  He says:
"my father is Mike and yes, we did live in a caravan, but it was outside the walled garden.  My father held the liquor license for many years so that the bar could stay open and trade.  I still remember the hotel as if it was only yesterday that I left.  I couldn't imagine growing up anywhere else and yes the place does have a resident ghost. "

Emma Barath's parents George and Billa owned the hotel in the mid to late 1970's when she was a small child.  She now lives in Warwickshire and George lives in London.  She wrote recently as follows:
"some of the references on the history pages relate to the time when my parents managed the hotel - certainly the reference to the menu with caviar, which according to my Dad was on the Christmas Day menu.  He was interested to know if you have the bell as this was something he was aware of and spent a lot of time trying to locate when he was there . I also have some hard copies of the original menus that were offered when the hotel first opened. "
Well we have found the bell and it is waiting to be restored.

Jane Williams and her husband Charles visited us from their home near Cardiff at the beginning of the month.  Jane lived here with her family from 1950 to 1966.  Dad was Lyndon Barros, I'm not sure of Mum's name.  Jane was one of four children and lived here until she was sixteen.  They were principally farmers with jersey cows and 600 pigs at one time on 60 acres and, as the market for pork fell, they began to let rooms and to create a hotel.  Jane remembered helping her father build both the swimming pool and the tennis court.
A lady staying here at that time saw a lady cross the lawn and walk straight through the circular wall, built by her father, and went upstairs, panting.  Mrs Williams (no relation) from Keeston who worked here and always rushed up the backstairs in fear of meeting the ghost.
The lawn area outside the kitchen door covers what was once a cobbled courtyard inside the now demolished east extension and it was one of Jane's regular summer jobs to remove the weeds between the cobbles.  She remembers that some of the cobbles were in red and spelt out the names of various members of the Stokes family.

Jane completed the Aga Khan story for us.
Six expensive yearlings were flying from Ireland and made an emergency landing at Brawdy.  They were stabled at Cuffern and then returned by land and sea to France accompanied by Jane's French speaking 16 year old sister.
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