It has become public knowledge that Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts has fallen in love with Wales, and particularly the Rhondda Valleys having spent a vast amount of time filming in the area for the popular BBC daytime property programme.
Martin's links to the region have grown stronger since buying a farmhouse, the oldest in the Rhondda Valley, and updating it into a pretty Airbnb, find out more about that here, as well as becoming the patron of The Rhondda Tunnel Society.
In 2022 Martin found himself 'accidentally' buying the closed down Hendrewen Hotel and pub in Blaencwm at the top of the Rhondda Fawr valley. He explained in an interview with WalesOnline that his plans for the future of the pub includes ploughing around half a million pounds of his own money into developing it into a gastro pub, accommodation and information centre as a support to the development of tourism around the area and, hopeful, the reopening of the Rhondda Tunnel- read more about that here.
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