Beneath the wide wide Heaven…The many-steepled tract magnificentOf hilly fields and meadows, and the sea So Coleridge described the view from high on the Quantock Hills. Friends of Quantock often comment on planning applications in the parishes around the hills …
Dormouse numbers have been in serious decline across the UK for many years, it is thought because of loss of habitat. They live in deciduous woodland especially scrub and hedges rarely setting foot on the ground. They are nocturnal, sleeping …
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, which means Lyme Disease UK are launching their annual Wake Up To Lyme Campaign. This year, the campaign will be entirely online due to the pandemic and LDUK’s got a brand new look! Head …
Brightening our days like Spring sunshine the 2021 FoQ |Magazine is published this week and will be posted out to members in the next day or two and to any new members joining this year. As ever the little booklet is …
A gift book ‘The Quantocks Illustrated’, free with all new memberships. Following our popular Christmas 2021 promotion, we are including a gift for all new members – the beautiful guide to the villages, views and changing seasons of the Quantock …
Friends of Quantock have teamed up with Out and About Images to offer this beautiful photographic guide to the Quantock Hills, Christmas wrapped with a one year FoQ household membership package and delivered directly to the recipient with a personal greeting message. …
Deer, and in particular its substantial red deer population, form an important part of the ecology and cultural history of the Quantock Hills. The Quantock Deer Management & Conservation Group was formed in 1991 to promote liaison on deer issues …
Over the last 4 years the Quantock Hills Rangers have worked in close partnership with colleagues from Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group SW and Natural England to carry out some “Slow the Flow” works mainly in the Wills Neck and …
Road closure between Park End and Cothelstone Some of you may have seen that the road between Park End junction, by Lydeard Hill, and the Five Ways junction by Cothelstone Hill has been closed. This is because of a major …
In 1952 a book was published by Berta Lawrence entitled Quantock Country. In it she describes the origins of Friends of Quantock. She, like many others, was distressed by a proposal in 1949 to lease 1,200 acres for re-afforestation. She …