Llanerchaeron is a country estate, now owned by the National Trust, lying just a few miles inland from the seaside town of Aberaeron. The house itself isn't a huge stately home but a place you could almost imagine living in. Once the estate was safe sufficient, with vegetables from the walled garden, and crops and livestock produced by the farm.
You can visit the old farm buildings and discover what life used to be like here but what brings me back time and again is the old walled garden. Its greenhouses may now be crumbling and definitely unsafe, but the ancient apple trees still survive, central beds are filed with vegetables, and the borders with flowers.
On a sunny day it's a wonderful place to just sit for a while.
If you feel like a short walk, there's a path around the lake next to the garden, and for a longer one, explore the woodland beyond the car park - you can follow a series of paths close by or join the cycle path which links Aberaeron and Lampeter.
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