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Barbeque
Bath
Bed Linen Provided
Bikes Provided
Cats Accepted
CD Player
Central Heating
Clothes Airer or Washing Line
Clothes Dryer
Clothes Washer
Cooker and Hob
Cottages that accept Pets
Courtyard
Dishwasher
DVD Player
Flame Effect Fire
Freezer-compartment
Fridge
Garden
Garden - Enclosed
Ground Floor Bath
Ground Floor Bedroom
Ground Floor Shower
Ground Floor Toilet
High Chair Provided
Internet Access
Iron and Board
King Size Bed
Microwave
Off Road Parking
Open Fire
Shepherds Hut
Shower, over Bath
Shower, Walk In
Single Storey
Television
Towels Provided
Travel Cot Provided
Village
Wifi
Wood Burner

Mill Cottage is a romantic holiday Cottagein its own hidden Valley overlooking the Mill Pond where you can go 'Wild Swimming'. This is a special self catering cottage for those who want to be right away from traffic and enjoy the beauty of being in your own environment with 4 nature reserves all backing onto it.

The Cottage is in a lovely little 'Back to the Good Life' setting in its own remote Nature Reserve of 70 acres, the owners  who live in the old mill house run rural arts and crafts courses on everything from bee keeping and straw bale house bulding to badger watching and book bindng.

Mill Cottage is all very, very eco: ground source heat pump, wool insulation, lime materials, the list goes on and ends with numerous awards, it has even restored its big Mill Wheel which generates electricity !

In one of the meadows is a big fenced in area of 11 acres and when the owls are not occupng the owl boxs this are can be used to let dogs hurtle around in.

The remaining meadows are wildflower meadows with some grazing for Old English Longhorn cattle

There are Badger watching hides, an Owl Tower and a Story telling thatched hut - all very special and magical.

Bantams cluck around the courtyard busily working up the energy to provide you with the best eggs you have tasted and the trees you can see in the photos are where the Nature Reserve starts. There is also 70 acres of the owner’s organic farmland to walk on or around.

There there are lovely footpaths around the whole small holding and direct access over stiles into the 3 adjancent Nature Reserves. Obviously doggies will have to be on leads when near the courtyards where the bantams run about or in the meadows if cows are there, but so long as you have control over your doggie other areas are fine to let him or her off the lead.

           Eloise and Anne walking down the valley. 

 The 11 acres where you can walk your dog in safety as it is completely fenced in. You can see the 2nd Owl Nesting box on the Pole in the centre where there are lovely views up and down the valley.

Mill cottage has one double bedroom and a sunny living room with a lovely wood-burning stove and beautiful views over the Mill Pond.

Downstairs there is a proper kitchen and dining area and a large walk in wet room style bathroom.

You can visit the cellar and see the impressive state of the art 'Heat Exchange Unit' which gathers heat from the meadow and uses it to heat the underfloor heating and the hot water. This is a very, very ecologically designed place to stay in and you can read the specifications below.

The historical nature of the place, its superb position and the wonderful build methods have resulted in a very elegant and peaceful atmosphere - once you are here you feel there is no need to go anywhere else - just relax.

The owners have an amazing 'Barn Owl Tower' - this is a small two-storey building built of strawbales on a course led by "Amazonails" (whose house in Wales won the Grand Designs eco section recently). It is in a small meadow by the stream, near the fenced woodland where guests can let their dogs run free. 
 

Guests can also go 'Wild Swimming' in the half-acre spring-fed Mill Pond adjacent to the cottage. It has recently been drained, de-silted and the banks profiled to slope gently into the water. Since doing this a family of mallard have been brought up on the Mill Pond for the first time, and a family of tufted duck, plus the usual moorhens.

Well behaved Dogs are always welcome, please refer to this web page  All About Bringing Pets  for charges and how this cottage may suit your pet.

The Owl Tower - This is a wonderful place to watch nature from. A pair of barn owls have taken-up residence in the Barn Owl Tower and can be seen hunting everyday, in the late afternoon and evening. Two owl chicks have been ringed and one of the guests saw a Goshawk recently.

I took this photo just before the thatched roof was completed - but its done now.

Guests can climb up a ladder inside the Owl Tower and watch the wildlife pass by from the windows from September to January. The barn owl box is in the roof space. There are badgers, roe deer and Muntjac to be seen, plus long-tailed tits, greater spotted woodpeckers, whimbrel, snipe, Mandarin duck (believe it or not) and little egrets, plus the other more common birds.

There is also a 'Story Telling Hut' which is Thatched and made of straw bales and lime plaster, it looks out over the picturesque valley and has a bench all around the inside; a wonderful quiet place to read a book or daydream the day away.

   

The owners have even established a special place where guests can spend an evening Badger watching.

You can go 'Wild Swimming' in this lovely mill pond.

 

FREE  FISH PEDICURE included in the price of the cottage.

Spas and Health Resorts charge a lot of money for a fish pedicure (little fish come and nibble the dead skin away).

Some of our guests have found that, if they sit quietly on the jetties of our Mill Pond with their feet in the water, our fish come and nibble away too.
            

There is a small rowing boat which guests are welcome to use, plus a coracle (an ancient form of boat made on a recent course) to have fun with, and two wooden jetties to launch them and swim from.

Assington Mill and nearby:
Fishing

The 70-acre Mill Farm is a private nature reserve consisting of an unusually varied habitat. There are four acres of wetland, seven of woodland, and five unimproved areas of pastureland, fenced in for Cheviot sheep, and the rest is organic and arable. We are growing onions this year. 

Over a kilometre of new hedges have been planted, together with 12 acres of mixed native species woodland. The three adjacent nature reserves (Spouses Grove, Arger Fen and Tiger Hill) are very beautiful and varied in form. Spouses Grove is known for its bluebell woods and ancient wild cherries, Arger Fen has just had its conifers removed creating space and light for the indigenous flora and Tiger Hill is a wonderful jungle of fallen trees. These four reserves are also known as home to rare dormice. Birds seen here are woodcock, snipe, mandarin duck (we had a nest of 10 last year), little egret, heron, kingfisher, and many other more common birds.

Assington Mill runs an unusually varied programme of short courses on mainly rural topics at the weekends, with an average of 12 students at a time.  If you would like to participate, we will offer a 10% discount on the price of each course to those booking Mill Cottage.  See the website, http://www.assingtonmill.com for details of the programme, and mention that you are coming to Mill Cottage when booking. There may at times be students of the courses camping in the small camp area on the site.
 

We can now offer you the hedonistic enjoyment of a really lovely massage in this cottage, please click this   link for more information.  Click for Massage info   Photo taken in Snow Cottage		While you are staying with us why not have a special treat and go Sailing for the day.  Click for days out sailing

Enjoy an exciting Experience - go hunting with Lavenham Falconry  Click For Falconry Information	Important moments slip by so quickly. Capture them in a relaxed portraiture session in the comfort of your own holiday cottage For more information Click here

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