The Wallow, St Buryan

The Wallow sits in the quiet hamlet of Higher Alsia, just outside St Buryan on Cornwall's far-western Penwith peninsula, and it is the kind of place a dog settles into within about five minutes. The apartment is entirely self-contained, so there are no shared corridors or communal doors to negotiate, and the lanes and fields start where the parking does.

The owners keep a pet basket and pet bowls at the property, which spares you packing them. Dog owners rate the apartment highly and describe it as clean, roomy and comfortable to settle into for several nights at a stretch, with the living space and the kitchen both well up to a week of self-catering.

Hosts get a consistently warm write-up: friendly, knowledgeable about what is worth seeing locally, and generous with the welcome pack. What guests return to most often, though, is the quiet. A garden looking out over fields, swifts in the evening, bats at dusk, and very little else. Porthcurno, the Minack Theatre, Sennen and the Land's End cliffs are all a short drive, so there is no shortage of coast path within reach for a proper walk.

Two things to plan around. The approach lane is narrow, which is worth knowing if country driving makes you tense, though it is a non-issue once you have parked. And because the property publishes no pet fee, dog count or size limit, it is worth settling those with the owners at the point of booking. With a 4.5 paw rating and a genuinely peaceful setting, The Wallow suits dogs that take a quiet rural base in their stride rather than those that need a town on the doorstep.