Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

164 Trails 32 POIs 15 Peaks 1 Picnic Site 3 Viewpoints
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Description

The Quantock Hills is a range of hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset, England. The Quantock Hills were England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, being designated in 1956, and consist of heathland, oak woodlands, ancient parklands and agricultural land. Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in Nether Stowey in the Quantocks from 1797 to 1799. In his memory a footpath, The Coleridge Way, was set up by the Exmoor park authorities. The 36-mile (58 km) route begins in Nether Stowey and crosses the Quantocks, the Brendon Hills and Exmoor before finishing in Porlock. The Quantock Greenway is a footpath that opened in 2001. The route of the path follows a figure of eight centred on Triscombe. The northern loop, taking in Crowcombe and Holford, is 19 miles (31 km) long, and the southern loop to Broomfield extends for 18 miles (29 km). The path travels through many types of landscape, including deciduous and coniferous woodland, private parkland, grazed pasture and cropped fields. The Macmillan Way West follows the Quantocks ridge for several miles.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • 20 minute walk
  • Alpha Cottages
  • Bicknoller Combe
  • Church Lane
  • Church Path
  • Coleridge Way
  • Cushuish Lane
  • Ellis's Lane
  • England Coast Path (Brean Down to Minehead)
  • Fyne Court Trail
  • Little Quantock Combe
  • No Place Lane
  • Old Devil's Galloping
  • Pardlestone Lane
  • Stream Farm Lane
  • Tarr Lane
  • The Drove
  • The Great Road
  • Thorncombe Lane
  • Underway Lane
  • West Deane Way
  • Woods Lane

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Beacon Hill
  • Bicknoller Post
  • Bicknoller Shop Association
  • Black Hill
  • Broomfield Hill
  • Combe House Hotel
  • Costcutter
  • Cothelstone Hill
  • Fire Beacon
  • Fyne Court Cafe
  • Gib Hill
  • Great Hill
  • Halsway Hill
  • Holwell Cave
  • Hurley Beacon
  • Kingston Beacon
  • Knackers Hole
  • Lady's Fountain
  • Longstone Hill
  • Lydeard Hill
  • Marrow Hill
  • Middle Hill
  • Ramscombe Picnic Area
  • Round Hill
  • St Audries Park
  • Stable Cottage
  • Stowborrow Hill
  • The Chantry Tea Rooms
  • The Pines Restaurant and Diner
  • Thorncombe Barrow
  • Thorncombe Hill
  • Weacombe Hill
  • West Hill
  • Wills Neck

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Adam Cli https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quantocks,_aerial.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)