La Garenne Luxury Farm Cottage To Let. Central to WWII interests. Twenty minutes from Brittany Ferries. Ideal overnight stop over.
La Garenne and Aunay Sur Odon
Our Location
Out of the village and half a mile on the left. We offer a luxury stone and oak vacation and holiday cottage, farm cottage, cottage on farm, cottage to let, gite on farm, sleeps two couples, super king beds, or four adults (space for two more by arrangement), gite accomodation on farm, inclusive self catering weekly let. Ample parking, own gardens, everything you need. This is a quiet location. Or B & B, if you prefer.
Parking pitches for all, in another area of the farm we have campsite, near to Caen overnight camping site, hook up, hard level lawn areas, views, campsite central to WWII and D-Day Interests, Villers Bocage and Quistreham, near Caen, near Brittany Ferry.
The location is just a short walk from Aunay Village, which is our view, day and night and quite beautiful, as we are elevated above the village. We are also close to Swiss Normandie, Suisse Normande.
Historical Significance
La Garenne is the former home of Cistercian Monks, many well known Bishops have lived here, all Grand Masters of Templars, Bishop Rance was head of the Priory of St Anne.
The estate has a river, a lake, a tree lined drive and views for miles, of surrounding villages.
The Abbey, privately owned next door, is steeped in Templar history and is where the monks trained in many professions eventually taking them to England to work in many skills, the area most famed for Abbeys, etc, Croxton Abbey is one we can look up. The Abbeys income and wealth built La Garenne to a high standard although very plain.
Local Attractions
If History is not your thing, relaxation is plentiful and food is the keyword, it's all here in Aunay Village, and if you love to shop you can 'til you drop here with shops galore, clothes, hair, and beauty, even a clairvoyant.
If Sport is your thing we are on the edge of Swiss Normandie, Suisse Normande, they have everything, even fishing ... all ages catered for, just ask to find out more ...
Normandy is a best kept secret, serious Horse country, Stud farms everywhere, it's where the cream of top horses live, the Brits bring their horses over after the Wembley for respite, equestrian centres are local and the World Equestrian Games are held in Caen.
View from the House at La Garenne.
The village market is every Saturday 10am - 12noon, and has a mass of shops and bars, one mile away is Villers Bocage with another huge selection of shops even Lidl recently opened, this is unique to this area, other villages have a bakers and thats it. Fifteen mins drive and you have Caen, very near, near to Caen, as large as London, but easier to get around, not so much traffic, parking is FREE, hooray I hear you say. You have old Caen with department stores and beautifiul old city, a short drive and new Caen, very near, like USA shopping Malls etc ... mind blowing.
La Garenne was also part of WWII, the Panzer division were situated here, the troops reported this back to HQ and the lancasters were sent over to stop them, sadly by the time they mustered, the Panzers had moved on to Caen. Aunay Sur Odon is rarely mentioned in any WWII documentories, yet it was wiped out during the invasion the lancasters dropped 20,000 tons of bombs on the village, only one person survived. Photo's of the devastation can be seen in foyer Hotel De la Place in the village, only 5 photos exist of the bombing by us.
There is also Villers Bocage and Quistreham to visit if you have an interest in the WWII History. We are an ideal base to visit Villers Bocage, and Quistreham, and we are central to WWII Sites of Interest and D-Day Memorial Sites and Sites of Interest.
Pop over to St Lo (twenty minutes away) Haras centre and view the one hundred plus sport horse stallions at Stud. Check Internet for times of parades, a real treat, indoor show jumping etc ...
Twelve minutes from Caen for the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, the World Equestrian Games. Come to Aunay Sur Odon an ideal base to visit the games.
Highland Ponies live here, exhibited in the UK around the county shows, some at Stud.
Sunny stream and countryside on the estate.
See you soon!