Smallburn Cottages Reviews 

Lovely clean and modern cottage which is in an excellent location for exploring the local area as well as being only 10 minutes walk from the beach.

We had a brilliant time at Lynecroft, Smallburn Cottage Embleton.

What an excellent dog friendly cottage, spotless, well furnished with a huge secure rear garden for Oakley our Cockapoo to play safely. He loved it!

Ideal location close to many amazing seaside towns and long sandy beaches. What a coast line with the historic Alnwick, Dunstanburgh and Bambugh Castles within a few mins drive.

Two terrific local pubs nearby both dog friendly and serving excellent home cooked food. The Cottage was perfect for us and we would highly recommend especially to our fellow dog owners.

Thank you for a great stay!

This was our third visit. An excellent property ideally located.
Spotlessly clean with all the amenities you would require for a family holiday.
Would highly recommend

Had a lovely week in Lynecroft. The cottage is in a very quiet location, but within a 5 min walk to the pub, and local corner shop. It’s a short walk (15 mins)to Embleton beach.
The cottage was immaculate. Everything was clean, and it has all the home from home things you need when on this type of holiday. The garden was a real winner for us having our dog with us, and as it gets the sun all day we enjoyed sitting outside for meals. We’ll definitely book again.

This was our first stay at The Arches cottage, what a great surprise a lovely modern cottage extremely well fitted out with top furnishings. Each room perfectly presented with ensuite bathrooms. Lovely sitting room and open plan dining kitchen. Bonus was the pub next door. Big thank you to the Smallburn team for a most enjoyable break with our dogs. We will be booking again.

We’ve just returned from a wonderful stay at Lynecroft. It really is the perfect holiday cottage - the location is perfect and really suited us as a 3 generation family, and the house and gardens were immaculate! We were extremely lucky with the weather whilst we were there and very grateful to the owners for coming over to build the new garden furniture that had been delivered so we could make use of it. The beds are super comfy, we all slept very well. There is loads to do in the local area, we could’ve easily stayed longer - highlights for us were The Alnwick Gardens, Bambrugh (especially the sunset on the beach), the Jolly Fisherman at Craster, and the lovely circular 7 mile walk from the cottage to Craster via Dunstanbrugh Castle. We’ll definitely return in the future - thank you!

Gorgeous cottage, perfectly situated, decorated and equipped, ideal for eating at Joiner’s Arms next door but one, and Ship Inn at Low Newton 10 min walk away. Spotlessly clean, already booked for next year having returned yesterday!

The best cottage we have ever stayed in! Fabulously equipped and maintained. We were sorry to go!

Fabulous cottage. Light, clean, well equipped. Good size bedrooms, both doubles have en suites, which was a real bonus, both with excellent showers. Location was perfect for us - we love Newton’s beaches, beadnall and embleton (all within walking distance). Our favourite pub the joiners arms is next door and an easy drive to bamburgh and seahouses. We have had an amazing week and would recommend this location and cottage highly.

We hit upon this property by accident as there had been a late cancellation in the dates we were searching properties for. It turned out to be absolutely ideal for us.
Lynecroft cottage is superbly appointed and immaculately presented. The village of Embleton is ideally situated near the coast for touring north, south, or inland. The garden was lovely, spacious and quiet when we were able to sit out. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay.

We throughly enjoyed our stay at the Arches, a beautiful cottage, finished to a very high standard & spotlessly clean. The location was fantastic located just 10 minutes from the local beach, some lovely walks and great restaurants around. Couldn’t have asked for anything more, I am so glad I found this place. Maureen was a great host, thank you to you all for making it such a wonderful stay. Will hope to be back at some point in the future.

This was our second visit to Lynecroft Cottage and without doubt we thoroughly enjoyed our stay again!.
The cottage is very comfortable and well equipped and located in a lovely little village with easy access to may local landmarks, attractions.
There is a beautiful lawn and secure garden to the rear of the cottage, ideal for our cocker spaniel to roam about.
I have no hesitation in recommending this property and will certainly visit again.

We had a fantastic time at Lynecroft Cottage. It was extremely clean, comfortable and well equipped. It is also far more spacious in real life than the impression you get from the website photos. Only a short walk to the beautiful Embleton Bay. So much to do in the area in addition to the wonderful beaches including Alnwick Castle, Cragside and Lindisfarne. We even managed a day trip to Edinburgh Zoo (about an hour and a half away). We thoroughly recommend this cottage and are looking forward to returning in the future.

The Arches is truly a 5 star house. We usually use Premier Cottages as their standard is always very high, but they didn't have accommodation in the High Newton/Low Newton area, and I am so glad that we found The Arches. Our family have spent a wonderful week there. The accommodation was excellent in every way - it was spotlessly clean and the fact that each bedroom had its own bathroom made it perfect for our family of my wife and I, our son and daughter-in-law and two granddaughters. We were slightly concerned that there wasn't a garden, and although it stated in the literature that the house was dog-friendly (and this was one of the reasons for booking) we were worried that there would be nowhere for the dog to be outside. That did not prove to be a problem as the gravelled area at the front of the house was perfect for the dog, and in any case the beach is only a 5 minute walk away. Another perfect thing about the house is that its next-door-neighbour is The Joiners Arms and we spent a good few afternoons sitting outside the pub enjoying a drink after our long walks. The food there is also excellent and cannot be recommended highly enough (especially the take-away fish and chips).

Smallburn cottage was perfect for a relaxing stay in Embleton, comfortable, extremely clean & well equipped, the beds were more comfortable than we have at home!
The only thing that would have improved our stay would have been a fenced area around the seating as our rather athletic new dog was able to jump over the low part of wall in rear garden but that is all.
Will certainly stay again & will recommend to our friends, thank you for a very enjoyable stay.

Very Comfortable and well equipped cottage with beautiful sandy beach and golf course a 5 minute walk away

Our second visit to The Arches, because it’s so good. First class quality holiday home, warm, 3 luxury bathrooms, top quality furniture/ bedding and spotlessly clean, great kitchen and in a perfect location for walking the coastline and next to 2 Pubs
The Joiners Arms next door, our experience of the food last November was not good in fact it was terrible, maybe just a poor chef that day, but we avoided it this time and walked 5 mins down to the beach to the Ship at Newton by the sea, great food and local beer, great staff although a little expensive for the size is fish and meat portions, but very nice indeed.
The Jolly Fisherman at Craster was the best food and value, we walked 3 miles along the coastal path and beach and booked a taxi back as it was evening.
Don’t miss out on staying at the Arches, you’ll be hard pushed to find a better quality holiday home, no views but if you’re out and about all day the thought of returning here makes up for that.

Absolutely beautiful cottage, with a perfect garden for the doggies too.

It’s perfectly located and we certainly wouldn’t change a thing…..

Maureen, the owner was brilliant about a very minor confusion and she went above and beyond what she needed to do / thanks for that, it went along away though it really wasn’t necessary.

We shall definitely be returning in February 2023 for a week and I’ll be looking to secure a booking very soon.

Second visit to The Arches perfect in every way once again. Cannot recommend this place enough. Maureen is a fantastic host. Cannot wait to return for our third visit very soon and hopefully many more to come.
Thank you Maureen and team xx

This a beautiful cottage in a great location, hosts could not be anymore helpful.

Well worth a visit and we will be back