Solva valley was carved out by glacial melt-water at the end of the last Ice Age, when rising sea levels flooded the lower valley to form the famous harbour.

There is an old iron age fort (400 B.C) out by Nine Wells beach called Porth-y-Rhaw. It hasn’t been established whether this was built by the Celts to defend themselves against the Vikings or other Celts. If you take a walk to the cliffs (10 mins from house) and turn right at the sea just before you descend to the pebbly beach you will see the grassy ramparts of the fort. A tunnel which runs under the fields connects the cellar of the house to the sea via 'Ogof Tobacco' (Tobacco cave), this was probably used for smuggling!

Llanunwas means “church of the one servant” and the first records of any dwellings here date back to the 16th century. Various families (Harries & Roberts) owned the property and lived here until 1927 when Ewan Davies the famous welsh rugby player who is the Davies’s brothers Grandfather, bought the farm and had the red brick building built to accommodate one of the biggest dairy farms in Wales equipped with a state of the art Alpha Laval milking system. The dairy and the farm were farmed by Bill Davies during the war and ceased production in the 1970’s, subsequently the main house was converted into the present holiday homes.

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