Britain's Most Unusually Named Holiday Cottages
Owners name their holiday cottages all sorts of things. We went through thousands of UK listings and pulled out 177 of the most unusual, from the cheeky to the storybook to the downright baffling. Every single one is a real cottage you can book.
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A good cottage name does a lot of work. It sets the mood before you have seen a single photo. Most go for cosy and coastal. A brave few go for something else entirely. We searched the holiday cottages listed on selfcatering.co.uk and gathered 177 of the most unusually named, then sorted them so you can find the funniest, the most charming and the most eyebrow-raising in seconds.
The headline findings
- We collected 177 unusually named UK holiday cottages across 8 styles of name.
- 34 of them are cheeky or rude enough to raise a smile on the booking form.
- You can book a stay in all 177. 78 link straight to the cottage; the rest link to the surrounding area where the cottage sits.
- The counties with the most unusual cottage names: Cornwall (22), Devon (15), Cumbria (13), North Yorkshire (12), Somerset (11).
Styles of unusual name
- Rude / cheeky: 22
- Animal-themed: 26
- Food & drink: 18
- Fantasy / storybook: 24
- Quirky / characterful: 42
- Welsh: 22
- Puns & wordplay: 15
- Gloomy / odd: 8
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The full list
Search, sort and browse every unusually named cottage below. Click a county to see where to stay nearby.
| Cottage name | Style | County | Why it stands out | Stay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Goat Lodge | Animal-themed | Worcestershire | Conjures the bridge-troll fairy tale and a stubborn goat in residence. | Crossway Green |
| Bonnie Wren Cottage | Animal-themed | Perth and Kinross | Sweet Scots-tinged name pairing pretty with Britain's tiniest songbird. | Keilour |
| Branch Partridge | Animal-themed | Worcestershire | An odd two-word name reading like a partridge perched on a branch. | Little Malvern |
| Cocky Hen | Animal-themed | Suffolk | A self-assured chicken in a village called Ubbeston, doubly amusing. | Laxfield |
| Cow & Plough | Animal-themed | Leicestershire | Sounds more like a country pub than a holiday cottage. | Stoughton |
| Enys Piggery | Animal-themed | Cornwall | Few people aspire to holiday in a piggery, but the honest name is irresistibly characterful. | Penryn |
| Giddy Goose | Animal-themed | Cumbria | A flustered, dizzy goose makes for a charmingly silly cottage name. | Windermere |
| Giggling Goose Cottage | Animal-themed | Lincolnshire | A goose mid-giggle is delightfully absurd and impossible to take seriously. | Woodhall Spa |
| Goose Eye Retreats | Animal-themed | West Yorkshire | The phrase goose eye sounds peculiar and faintly menacing for a relaxing break. | Steeton |
| Goose Whistle Hut | Animal-themed | Wiltshire | A whistling goose is gloriously nonsensical, conjuring an unlikely musical bird. | Foxham |
| Goose's Roost | Animal-themed | Herefordshire | The wonky plural Gooses turns a goose's roost into an unintentionally funny name. | Winforton |
| Hedgehog | Animal-themed | Anglesey | Just Hedgehog, bracingly minimal and rather sweet for a whole cottage. | Brynteg |
| Hooting Owl Retreat | Animal-themed | Somerset | Charming nocturnal name evoking a hooting woodland owl hideaway. | Wheddon Cross |
| Leadmill Piggery | Animal-themed | County Durham | A former pigsty proudly named, charmingly honest about its porky past. | Barnard Castle |
| Lobster Lookout | Animal-themed | Dorset | Alliterative seaside name conjuring crustaceans keeping watch from the coast. | Swanage |
| Lower Goosewell Cottage | Animal-themed | Devon | Goosewell sounds like a place where the geese are doing just fine. | Thurlestone |
| Mole End | Animal-themed | Cornwall | Straight from Wind in the Willows, the name of Mole's cosy underground home. | Fowey |
| Pheasants Folly | Animal-themed | Cumbria | Folly suggests a daft or doomed bird scheme, gently comic. | Windermere |
| Pheasants Wander at Summercourt | Animal-themed | Cornwall | Charmingly evokes birds aimlessly strolling, a whimsical wandering scene. | Saint Enoder |
| Red Squirrels Drey | Animal-themed | Northumberland | A drey is a squirrel's nest, a lovely obscure word most people never hear. | Belford |
| Sea Owl | Animal-themed | Cornwall | There is no such thing as a sea owl, a curiously made up creature. | Newquay |
| Seagull Shack | Animal-themed | Gwynedd | Alliterative and self deprecating, naming your holiday let after pesky chip thieving seagulls. | Tremadoc |
| Sleepy Donkey Cottage | Animal-themed | Devon | A drowsy donkey conjures a charmingly sleepy, comic farmyard image. | Sidmouth |
| Snoozy Goose | Animal-themed | Northumberland | A napping goose makes for a cosy, faintly absurd animal pairing. | Ovingham |
| Snuffling Hedgehog | Animal-themed | Lincolnshire | Wonderfully descriptive: you can almost hear the hedgehog snuffling about. | Cherry Willingham |
| Squirrel Nutkin | Animal-themed | Cumbria | A Beatrix Potter character lends a storybook charm to the name. | Keswick |
| Abbotskerswell Folly | Fantasy / storybook | Devon | A folly suggests grand pointless architecture, irresistibly eccentric and English. | Abbotskerswell |
| Adderstone Folly | Fantasy / storybook | Northumberland | Folly naming conjures whimsical, ornamental buildings built purely for fancy. | Warenford |
| Bilbo | Fantasy / storybook | Lancashire | Named after the Hobbit hero, instant Tolkien charm for a cottage. | Lancaster |
| Dragon Pad | Fantasy / storybook | Kent | Calling a dragon's lair a pad is brilliantly casual, like a mythical bachelor flat. | Royal Tunbridge Wells |
| Dragon's Den | Fantasy / storybook | Cheshire | Shares its name with the fearsome telly investor show, promising a fiery welcome. | Chester |
| Fantasy Folly | Fantasy / storybook | Devon | A dreamy alliterative name promising whimsy and indulgent escapism in equal measure. | Winsford |
| Gingerbread House | Fantasy / storybook | Highland | Evokes the fairy tale house, though guests should beware the resident witch. | Mey |
| Hobbit House | Fantasy / storybook | Northumberland | Tolkien-flavoured name promising a cosy Shire-style burrow. | West Ord |
| Hobbits Hide | Fantasy / storybook | Devon | Middle-earth nod conjuring a snug little hobbit-hole hideaway. | Abbotskerswell |
| Hobbits Hole | Fantasy / storybook | East Riding of Yorkshire | Straight from Tolkien, the classic comfy hobbit dwelling. | South Cave |
| Hobgoblin Holiday Apartments | Fantasy / storybook | Argyll and Bute | Mischievous folklore creature lending a wonderfully impish, slightly spooky charm. | Clachan of Glendaruel |
| Hogwarts Cottage | Fantasy / storybook | North Yorkshire | Cheeky Harry Potter nod promising a magical wizarding stay. | Pickering |
| Little Dragons | Fantasy / storybook | Somerset | Tiny mythical beasts make a charmingly whimsical name for a holiday cottage. | Dunster |
| Narnia Cottage | Fantasy / storybook | North Yorkshire | Named after the magical land in C.S. Lewis, promising a wardrobe to another world. | Scarborough |
| Ocean Shangri-La | Fantasy / storybook | Devon | Names the cottage after the mythical earthly paradise, promising a seaside utopia. | Torquay |
| Pendragon | Fantasy / storybook | Cumbria | Arthurian legend title meaning chief dragon, grandly mythical for a holiday let. | Kirkby Stephen |
| Pixie Cottage | Fantasy / storybook | Cornwall | Conjures tiny mischievous folk, whimsically fairytale for a rental. | Looe |
| Sand Fairy Cottage | Fantasy / storybook | Somerset | Charming nod to the Psammead sand fairy from the Edwardian children's classic. | Bath |
| Shire's End | Fantasy / storybook | Herefordshire | Tolkien flavoured name evoking the very edge of hobbit country. | Gosford |
| Snapdragon | Fantasy / storybook | Kent | Flower name that sounds half botanical, half mythical beast. | Royal Tunbridge Wells |
| The Dragons Den | Fantasy / storybook | Devon | Shares its name with the TV show, guests may fear a grilling on arrival. | West Down |
| The Enchanted Wilderness | Fantasy / storybook | Cornwall | Grandly magical name promising fairytale forest vibes well beyond an ordinary cottage. | Calstock |
| The Hobbit | Fantasy / storybook | Aberdeenshire | Tolkien-branded cottage, guests will expect round doors and second breakfasts. | Inverallochy |
| The Hobbit House | Fantasy / storybook | Kent | Promises a Shire-style dwelling, low ceilings and hairy-footed neighbours optional. | Hastingleigh |
| Brandy Harbour Cottage | Food & drink | Connaught | Evokes smugglers landing brandy by night, full of coastal romance. | County Galway |
| Brandy's Barn | Food & drink | North Yorkshire | Named for brandy or a beloved pet, either way warmly characterful. | Middleham |
| Broccoli Bottom | Food & drink | Rutland | Vegetable plus bottom makes a daft, oddly memorable garden-vegetable mash-up. | Manton |
| Cheshire Cheese Cottage | Food & drink | Cheshire | Named after the crumbly local cheese, a deliciously regional choice. | Tattenhall |
| Crumpet Cottage | Food & drink | Dorset | Cosy teatime treat name, with a cheeky old-fashioned double meaning. | Dewlish |
| Egg Pudding Stone | Food & drink | Cumbria | A baffling stack of breakfast words, sounds like a riddle rather than a holiday cottage. | Cartmel |
| Kipper Cottage | Food & drink | Cornwall | Named after the smoked herring, a delightfully fishy breakfast tribute. | Port Isaac |
| Kipper Lodge | Food & drink | Devon | Another smoked-herring name, oddly tasty for a holiday let. | Dartmouth |
| Marmalade Cottage | Food & drink | Northumberland | Sweet, sticky and very British, evoking Paddington and breakfast toast. | Seahouses |
| Pickle Cottage | Food & drink | Derbyshire | Being in a pickle means in trouble, an amusing name for a getaway. | Middleton-by-Wirksworth |
| Pickled Onion Cottage | Food & drink | Somerset | Named after a tangy snack, distinctly British and faintly ridiculous. | Bickenhall |
| Scone Serenity | Food & drink | Perth and Kinross | Alliterative ode to scones, the most British tea time accolade for a cottage. | Scone |
| Scrumpy | Food & drink | Cornwall | Named after rough West Country cider, instantly evoking a boozy rustic holiday. | Mullion |
| Scrumpy Cottage | Food & drink | Cornwall | Cider themed cottage name, charmingly rustic and very West Country. | Blisland |
| Sea Pickle Cottage | Food & drink | Pembrokeshire | Sea pickle is gloriously random, conjuring brine and oddity in equal measure. | Llangwm |
| Smoked Kipper Cottage | Food & drink | North Yorkshire | Naming a holiday let after a smoked fish is gloriously, oddly specific. | Whitby |
| The Old Toffee Shop | Food & drink | Cumbria | A former sweet shop turned holiday let, dripping with sticky seaside nostalgia. | Ambleside |
| The Pickle Pot | Food & drink | Cornwall | Being in a pickle, or a pot of one, makes for a wryly comic cottage name. | Mawgan Porth |
| Flood House | Gloomy / odd | Dorset | Naming a holiday rental after a flood is hardly reassuring to nervous bookers. | Bridport |
| Howling Point | Gloomy / odd | Powys | Atmospheric, slightly ominous name suggesting wind-lashed, wolfish wilderness. | Rhayader |
| Journey's End | Gloomy / odd | Cornwall | Literary and faintly final phrase, evocative but quietly ominous for a holiday let. | Manaccan |
| Pheasants Haunt | Gloomy / odd | Devon | Haunt makes you picture spectral game birds lurking in the grounds. | Galmpton |
| The Hovel | Gloomy / odd | Warwickshire | Self-deprecating name promising squalor, brave marketing for a holiday let. | Fenny Compton |
| Tumbledown | Gloomy / odd | Worcestershire | Naming your retreat Tumbledown openly suggests it is falling apart, brilliantly off-putting. | Broadway |
| Wits End Cottage | Gloomy / odd | Lincolnshire | Wry pun on at my wit's end, a self-deprecating name for a supposed restful escape. | Haltham |
| Witts End | Gloomy / odd | North Yorkshire | Plays on at one's wit's end, comically suggesting the holiday is anything but relaxing. | Marske-by-the-Sea |
| Absolute Eden | Puns & wordplay | Cumbria | Cheeky play on absolute heaven, promising paradise with a wink. | Calthwaite |
| Bide-A-Wee | Puns & wordplay | Norfolk | Classic British dialect house name meaning stay a while, a quintessential old cottage naming convention. | Wroxham |
| Dunroamin | Puns & wordplay | Isle of Wight | Legendary British retirement pun on done roaming, the most famous joke house name in the country. | Sandown |
| Looe Island View | Puns & wordplay | Cornwall | Looe sounds like loo, raising eyebrows despite being a genuine Cornish place. | Downderry |
| Loose Farm Lodge | Puns & wordplay | East Sussex | Loose Farm sounds delightfully shambolic and slightly suggestive when said aloud. | Battle |
| Match Point Manor | Puns & wordplay | East Sussex | Tennis pun grandly applied to a manor, serving up a winning name. | Eastbourne |
| Nutshell | Puns & wordplay | North Yorkshire | Charming pun on in a nutshell, cheekily flagging the property as compact and snug. | Whitby |
| Osokozy | Puns & wordplay | Worcestershire | Phonetic spelling of oh so cosy, deliberately cute and unmistakably a holiday cottage name. | Shrawley |
| Owl's Hoot | Puns & wordplay | East Riding of Yorkshire | A hoot means great fun, a playful pun standing out among dozens of plain owl names. | Burton Pidsea |
| Owls Hoot | Puns & wordplay | Ceredigion | A hoot means a laugh, a cheery pun amid endless generic owl cottages. | Aberporth |
| Polly's Folly | Puns & wordplay | Dorset | Bouncy rhyming name suggesting a delightful foolish project by Polly. | Swanage |
| Shangri-La de dah | Puns & wordplay | Kent | Brilliant double pun layering paradise Shangri-La with the mocking la-di-dah, both posh and self-aware. | Margate |
| The Nutshell | Puns & wordplay | Monmouthshire | Pun on in a nutshell, gently advertising a tiny and cosy place to stay. | Monmouth |
| The Pleasant Pheasant Mews | Puns & wordplay | Norfolk | Pleasant Pheasant is a delightful near rhyme that trips off the tongue. | Ellingham |
| Tranquilshire | Puns & wordplay | Gloucestershire | An invented county fusing tranquil with shire, like a soothing made-up postcode. | Sherborne |
| Anne's Hut | Quirky / characterful | Monmouthshire | Calling a holiday let a hut undersells it with charming modesty. | Tintern |
| Apple Shack | Quirky / characterful | Carmarthenshire | Humble shack naming feels deliberately self-deprecating and rustic. | Henllan |
| Badger Set in Granite Henge near Looe | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | Granite henge and Looe make this sound like a mystical badger lair. | Killigarth |
| Balloo | Quirky / characterful | Lancashire | Odd single word that reads like a cartoon bear or a sneeze. | Lancaster |
| Barbers Bolthole | Quirky / characterful | North Yorkshire | Alliterative bolthole naming is snappy and conjures a cosy hideaway. | Masham |
| Bay Adventures | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | Naming a cottage adventures promises far more than four walls and a kettle. | Saint Merryn |
| Bee Bowl Cottage | Quirky / characterful | Devon | Bee bowl is a curious, slightly nonsensical pairing that sticks in the mind. | Landcross |
| Berties Bolthole | Quirky / characterful | Somerset | Bertie plus bolthole sounds like a posh gentleman's secret retreat. | Brompton Regis |
| Black Lion Folly | Quirky / characterful | Flintshire | A folly named after a black lion sounds wonderfully grand and eccentric. | Rhydymwyn |
| Bowler Yard Cottage | Quirky / characterful | Nottinghamshire | Bowler conjures jaunty hats, giving this yard cottage a dapper twist. | Warsop |
| Bramble, The Retro Caravan | Quirky / characterful | Cumbria | A named retro caravan called Bramble has cheerful vintage-glamping personality. | Great Strickland |
| Brambles Kip | Quirky / characterful | Isle of Wight | Kip is charming British slang for sleep, perfect for a cosy bolthole. | Freshwater |
| Chez Nous | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | Faux-French for our place, the archetypal aspirational suburban and holiday cottage name. | Crantock |
| Crooked Well | Quirky / characterful | Somerset | Sounds like a half-hearted recovery, oddly charming and slightly wonky. | Timsbury |
| Daffy Down Dilly | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | A nonsense nursery rhyme name for a daffodil, gloriously silly and singsong. | Wadebridge |
| Dilly Dally | Quirky / characterful | Somerset | Named after the very act of wasting time, perfect for a lazy holiday escape. | Ilminster |
| Dolly's Lookout | Quirky / characterful | Suffolk | Conjures a tiny doll perched on watch, charmingly homely and oddly specific. | Kessingland |
| Fallow Folly | Quirky / characterful | Norfolk | Alliterative and self deprecating, naming your retreat after a pointless decorative blunder. | Little Massingham |
| Farmstead Folly | Quirky / characterful | Warwickshire | Alliterative and cheekily admits the farm building was a slightly daft idea. | Weston on Avon |
| Fisher's Folly | Quirky / characterful | Cumbria | A folly named for fishing, with a pleasing alliterative ring and a hint of self-deprecation. | Underskiddaw |
| Furry Friend's Folly | Quirky / characterful | Cumbria | Alliterative and slightly daft, suggesting a folly built for or by a beloved pet. | Little Clifton |
| Giddy Cottage | Quirky / characterful | East Sussex | A cottage that sounds permanently lightheaded and overexcited about something. | East Dean |
| Ginger & Pickles | Quirky / characterful | Cumbria | Borrows the Beatrix Potter shopkeeper duo, evoking storybook charm. | Windermere |
| Glen Piggery | Quirky / characterful | Somerset | A scenic Scottish glen paired with a pig sty makes an oddly unglamorous holiday pitch. | Chewton Mendip |
| Grafton Woodshack | Quirky / characterful | East Sussex | Woodshack promises rustic charm while admitting it is essentially a shack. | Brighton |
| Grandad's Shack | Quirky / characterful | Torfaen County Borough | Calling your rental a shack is refreshingly honest and a touch self-mocking. | Abersychan |
| Hearth Peacock | Quirky / characterful | Worcestershire | An odd two-word pairing that reads almost like surrealist poetry. | Little Malvern |
| Higgledy Hideout | Quirky / characterful | North Yorkshire | Playful alliterative name suggesting a wonky, charmingly chaotic bolt-hole. | Thornton Dale |
| Higgledy Piggledy Cottage | Quirky / characterful | Dorset | Wonderfully wonky name, the very phrase for delightful disorder. | Swanage |
| Howldrevel | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | Strange, almost magical-sounding word that puzzles and intrigues. | Mawnan |
| Ickle Pickle Cottage | Quirky / characterful | North Yorkshire | Adorably daft baby-talk name for a teeny, charming cottage. | Pickhill |
| Invernahavon | Quirky / characterful | Highland | Scottish-sounding portmanteau that playfully buries inverna-haven inside a faux Highland place name. | Etteridge |
| Jacob's Folly | Quirky / characterful | Norfolk | A folly hints at an eccentric, whimsical architectural indulgence. | Briston |
| Little Folly | Quirky / characterful | Somerset | Naming your retreat after a folly cheerfully admits it might be a daft idea. | Winsford |
| Little Piccadilly | Quirky / characterful | Devon | A tiny rural cottage cheekily borrowing the name of London's busiest junction. | Kingsbridge |
| Malt Shovel Cottage | Quirky / characterful | North Yorkshire | Old brewing tool name suggesting a former pub, full of boozy character. | Crakehall |
| Middle of Nowhere | Quirky / characterful | Norfolk | Brilliantly honest name selling remoteness as the entire appeal. | Sparham |
| Monty's Lookout | Quirky / characterful | Worcestershire | Named after Monty, presumably a dog, who clearly keeps an eye on things. | Little Witley |
| Mousehole Bungalow | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | The Cornish village name reads like a tiny dwelling fit for a mouse. | Gulval |
| Newtrain Bay | Quirky / characterful | Cornwall | Odd-sounding name reading like a railway pun, despite being a Cornish cove. | Little Petherick |
| Rum Bush Cottage | Quirky / characterful | Cumbria | Odd pairing of rum and bush that reads as faintly cheeky and memorable. | Dufton |
| Sugarbush | Quirky / characterful | Munster | Sweet and slightly suggestive single word that raises an eyebrow. | County Cork |
| Apple Tree and the Love Shack | Rude / cheeky | Devon | The Love Shack name promises a romantic, slightly saucy getaway. | East Portlemouth |
| Bloomers Bothy | Rude / cheeky | North Yorkshire | Bloomers means knickers, giving this tiny bothy a cheeky undergarment ring. | Thornton Rust |
| Boococks Barn | Rude / cheeky | Lancashire | The surname Boococks hides an unfortunate giggle-worthy syllable for the immature. | Gisburn Forest |
| Bottom House | Rude / cheeky | Devon | Bottom raises an immediate giggle, however innocent the geographical meaning. | Salcombe |
| Bottom Lodge | Rude / cheeky | Newport | Another cheeky bottom name guaranteed to amuse the easily tickled. | Parc Seymour |
| Bottomhouse Barn | Rude / cheeky | Staffordshire | Bottomhouse delivers reliable backside sniggers for guests of all ages. | Onecote |
| Bush Farm Annexe | Rude / cheeky | Wiltshire | Bush carries obvious innuendo, raising eyebrows despite the rural farm setting. | West Knoyle |
| Bush Nook House | Rude / cheeky | Cumbria | Bush Nook pairs two suggestive words for a thoroughly cheeky double act. | Upper Denton |
| Cock Bank Cottage | Rude / cheeky | Wrexham | A real Welsh place name that raises eyebrows on every booking form. | Marchwiel |
| Cockerwell | Rude / cheeky | Isle of Wight | Sounds like a backhanded compliment, deeply unfortunate for a holiday let. | Newchurch |
| Cockington | Rude / cheeky | Devon | A genuine Devon village whose name induces a quiet snigger. | Torquay |
| Cocks Cottage | Rude / cheeky | Cornwall | Plural and proud, this Cornish surname name is hard to say straight-faced. | Saint Teath |
| Cockshead Cottage | Rude / cheeky | Ceredigion | Reads like a playground insult, an unfortunate combination of two innocent words. | Cardigan |
| Knob's Nest | Rude / cheeky | Powys | Knob is cheeky British slang, making this name a giggle-inducing innuendo. | Velindre |
| Little Cottage and Love Shack | Rude / cheeky | Cornwall | A Love Shack promises romance and innuendo, straight out of the B-52s song. | Germoe |
| Nookie Cottage | Rude / cheeky | Devon | Nookie is slang for sex, an unmistakably cheeky name for a romantic holiday cottage. | Dartmouth |
| Rumpys | Rude / cheeky | Fife | Strongly suggests rumpy pumpy, a wonderfully suggestive name for a holiday let. | Anstruther |
| Sandy Bottom | Rude / cheeky | Somerset | Classic seaside innuendo, a sandy bottom raises an obvious cheeky giggle. | Minehead |
| Sandy Bottoms | Rude / cheeky | North Yorkshire | Pluralised cheeky seaside name, even more bottoms for the innuendo lovers. | Whitby |
| The Attic at Redmond Bottom | Rude / cheeky | Somerset | An attic perched at a place literally called Bottom; cheeky geographic comedy. | Wookey |
| The Cockles | Rude / cheeky | Norfolk | Seafood name that doubles as a nudge-nudge anatomical innuendo, warms the cockles indeed. | Sheringham |
| Woodbottom Farm | Rude / cheeky | West Yorkshire | Bottom in the name raises an inevitable cheeky giggle from British guests. | Meltham |
| Badger Llewelyn | Welsh | Gwynedd | Pairing a badger with a Welsh name is delightfully unexpected and characterful. | Tudweiliog |
| Caban Cwtch | Welsh | Gwynedd | Welsh for cosy cabin, cwtch means a cuddle or snug little hideaway. | Llanaelhaiarn |
| Cariad Cwtch | Welsh | Conwy | Welsh for sweetheart cuddle, an affectionate name visitors cannot pronounce. | Abergele |
| Cegin Foch | Welsh | Gwynedd | Welsh for little kitchen, but foch reads alarmingly to English speakers. | Chwilog |
| Cosy Cwtch | Welsh | Powys | Doubly snug, cwtch already means cosy so the name is happily redundant. | Hay |
| Curlews Cwtch | Welsh | Cornwall | Welsh cuddle named after a wading bird, alliterative and unpronounceable. | Polzeath |
| Cwt Cwtshlyd | Welsh | Ceredigion | An almost vowel free Welsh tongue twister that delights and baffles English speakers in equal measure. | Tregaron |
| Cwtch | Welsh | Ceredigion | The beloved Welsh word for a cuddle, a single cottage name with no English vowels. | Ystrad-Meurig |
| Cwtch Winnie Shepherd's Hut | Welsh | Conwy | Welsh cuddle word paired with a homely name Winnie on a tiny shepherd's hut. | Llysfaen |
| Cwtsh Cragen | Welsh | Ceredigion | Welsh for a seashell cuddle, charmingly unpronounceable to most visitors booking it. | New Quay |
| Hen Efail Holiday Cottages | Welsh | Ceredigion | Welsh for old smithy, an authentic and characterful place name. | Eglwys-fach |
| King's Cwtch Shepherd's Hut | Welsh | Cardiff | Cwtch is the lovely Welsh word for a cuddle or cosy nook. | Pentyrch |
| Madog's Wells | Welsh | Powys | Named for the legendary Welsh prince Madog, said to have sailed to America. | Manafon |
| Maerdy Cwtch | Welsh | Pembrokeshire | Cwtch is the beloved Welsh word for a cuddle, perfect for a cosy stay. | Solva |
| Nyth Y Bioden (Magpie's Nest) | Welsh | Gwynedd | Charming Welsh name meaning Magpie's Nest, complete with helpful English translation. | Llanaelhaiarn |
| Pant y Cwtsh | Welsh | Carmarthenshire | Welsh for hollow of the cuddle, but pant reads cheekily to English eyes. | Kidwelly |
| Red Dragon Cottages | Welsh | Gwynedd | Named after the Welsh national emblem, the fiery red dragon of the flag. | Nant Gwynant |
| Romany Wagon and Cwtch | Welsh | Ceredigion | A Romany wagon paired with a Welsh cwtch, the lovely Welsh word for a cosy cuddle. | Hawen |
| Shepherd's Cwtch | Welsh | Carmarthenshire | Uses cwtch, the untranslatable Welsh word for a snug cuddle, charming and regional. | Cilycwm |
| The Cotswold Cwtch | Welsh | Worcestershire | Welsh cwtch (cuddle) transplanted to the Cotswolds, an unexpected cross-border alliteration. | Broadway |
| Ty Copr | Welsh | Anglesey | Genuine Welsh-language name meaning copper house, distinctive against the English puns around it. | Penysarn |
| Y Twll Bollt (The Bolt Hole) | Welsh | Pembrokeshire | Welsh bolt hole that reads rudely to English eyes, with the cheeky translation supplied. | Nolton |
How we did it
We searched the live holiday-cottage listings on selfcatering.co.uk for names containing unusual, funny or cheeky words, then a human editor kept only the ones that genuinely stand out. Every name in the list is a real, bookable property. Counts are correct as of June 2026.
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