Monday, March 23, 2009

College Valley - newsletter

COLLEGE VALLEY 2009
NEWSLETTER

We are pleased to mail our first newsletter to customers who have previously holidayed in one of the cottages in the beautiful College Valley

We have even been lucky enough to have stayed twice in Hethpool Mill and once in Dunsdale House over the last 12 months and wanted to share with you some of the latest news and keep you up to date.

There’s lots to tell and this letter is also posted on our blog at www.northumbria-byways.com making it is easier to see what we are talking about by click on hyperlinks.

Firstly great news! The weekly rates for Dunsdale House have been reduced from band W to band S – making this fantastic value for groups of 8. The peak season price is now £785. We have found that Coldburn Cottage and Hethpool Mill are booking up very quickly so to offer a genuine alternative to these smaller cottages we decided to lower the price. So if you fancy a break in a house with loads of space and unrivalled views go to the website and check out availability.

Other offers at the moment are 10% discount off any full week’s holiday in Hethpool Mill for holidays between 30th May 2009 and 29th August 2009.

AND

Coldburn Cottage
has 5 nights available NEXT WEEK from 23rd March at an amazing £250.

There are plenty of blog articles about The Valley, ranging from sunsets to satellite photos plus of course photographs of the surrounding hills. We have a wide range of new photographs on Flickr and You Tube. The videos are quite basic but we are going to build on these over the year ahead.

During 2008 The College Valley suffered from the worst floods in 40 years and the bed of the College Burn has been completely scoured out in places. Then in February of this year, whilst we were staying, the heaviest snow fall in recent years. The landscape all around was like a fairytale – we had a brilliant time building an army of snowmen.

We were thinking if we have so many memories and photos of our holidays in The College Valley, how many must you have and would you be interested in sharing them with us? So we would be very happy to receive any photographs or stories so we can share them with everyone who receives our email newsletter which we send every few months. You can email them, jot them down on a postcard or letter and send to Northumbria Byways, Maryholme, Hallbankgate, Brampton, Cumbria. CA8 2NE. The first 5 to be received and posted on our blog will all qualify for a £10 Marks and Spencer Gift Voucher.

If you are interested in keeping up to date with what’s happening in the Valley please let us know. We would love to send you emails with news, pictures and late availability offers – BUT we need an email address to do this so please email us, write or phone us on 016977 46777 and lets keep in touch.

Kind Regards

Vicky Reed

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

College Valley in the snow - Dunsdale house


Our February long week end up at Dunsdale house in the College Valley turned into a winter wonderland with loads of snow.

We posted this image on Geograph.org









And we also took plenty of , well rather amateurish, videos on you tube.


One of which is here!


video

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Satellite maps of the College Valley

Wen have been experimenting with using satellite images to try and show the beauty of some of the places where we have houses to let

Our first attempt was using Panoramio which allows you to place your photos onto a map. This picture shows the layout of what you will see.This is the College Valley and you can see our images on the left hand side....then the satellite picture and so on.
















Then we looked at Wikimapia. This allows you to copy the code for the area into an I Frame as below...so what ...its the same as panoramio? Well its not...the neat thing is that you can move the map within the i frame and zoom in and out


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