Shopping for essentials
Here you’ll find details of where to head for your essentials. You’ll find it’s not far whether you need to pop to the nearest convenience store for a pint of milk, do the weekly supermarket shop or take more time exploring the local produce at local markets and farm stores.
Shops in Cardigan
Cardigan is the nearest big town for shopping for essentials. Cardigan has both a Tesco and an Aldi Supermarket. Many of our guests organise deliveries for their night of arrival. We are blessed with a high street of independent businesses and you will also find several chemists, a butcher, two bakers, a fishmonger, a health food store, a post office, a green grocer, banks, pet shops and florists.
Local Convenience Stores
Our nearest food shop is the Premier convenience store in St Dogmaels, a 15 minutes drive from Cwm Connell. It look very basic on the outside but is a really handy ‘corner shop’ with locally sourced foods, Joe’s Ice Cream, a gluten and dairy free section as well as all the essentials you may have forgotten to pack. There is a Spar in Newport and the Murco petrol station on the A487 near Eglwyswrw has a large convenience store with some lovely locally made products.
Glebelands Market Garden
This wonderful farm shop has the most delicious, fresh, seasonal and sustainably sourced vegetables we have ever bought. It is only open Thursday to Sunday but well worth planning a visit. They have an eight acre organic site on which most of the produce grows but also import some choice vegetables from organic partners.
St Dogmaels Local Producers Market
Every Tuesday from 9am-1pm all through the year locals and visitors can buy fresh food and gifts all produced locally. Th market is held next to the ruins of St Dogmaels Abbey, overlooking the mill pond and the working water mill. The bread made from the stone ground flour is sold in the market by our friend ‘Emma of the Mill’! We love Tanya’s energy balls, activated nuts and granola, vegan cakes and salad, falafel and hummus lunch boxes. The alpaca socks are so luxurious and Lorraines dog treats are the ones we gift to our four legged guests at Cwm Connell. Also you can buy local honey and natural remedies, local farm meats and vegetables, and delicious pies and pastries.
Wholefoods of Newport
This shop is a wonderland full of healthy wholefoods, jams and chutneys, fresh vegetables, natural cosmetics, alternative gifts and colourful sustainably made ethnic clothing. The deli counter is packed with olives, cheeses, fresh breads, cakes and home made salads. Take away lunch boxes and hot drinks; this is a one stop shop for all things yummy and wholesome.
Newport Local Producers Market
The street market in Newport runs from the beginning of March to the end of December. The market is open on Mondays 9am-1pm weather permitting, it promotes and sells local produce and products. It is a lovely market with a good atmosphere, lots of fresh food and produce, fresh cakes, bread and amazing Carn Edward meat, dressed crab, Caws Cheese from Cenarth, Welsh Sea Salt Fudge, felted soaps and knitwear and lovely tweed cushions with dogs made in the Preselis.
Havards in Newport
This very practical shop is like Aladdin’s Cave selling everything from hardware to beachware. Here you can find crab lines, washing powder, beach towels, buckets and spades, dog food, dog beds, sewing kits and all those other useful things you may need on holiday!
