The FoQ Magazine Spring 2021
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 …
Quantocks News
2021 Free Quantocks Illustrated Book with all New Memberships
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 …
‘The Quantocks Illustrated’ Christmas Gift Membership Package
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. …
Quantock Deer Management & Conservation Group
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 …
Slow the Flow – Water Management
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 …
Ash Dieback on the Quantock Hills
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 …
The Origins of Friends of Quantock
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 …
Guided Walk, Lydeard Hill, Cothelstone, the Grotto and St Agnes Well
We have decided to go ahead with the guided walk on 3 September as group walks with precautions are now allowed. There are some limited spaces available. There are one or two slight changes from the original details published in the newsletter. …
Ramscombe Wild Flower Conservation Project
Right up at the top end of Ramscombe, almost at Crowcombe Park Gate is a boggy stream or mire fed by an intermittent spring of fresh water. It is an uncommon environment and a number of rare wild flowers have been recorded there …
The Exmoor Magazine
Hello Quantock Villages, Coronavirus means that we cannot deliver the summer magazine to your local shops. But you can still get your copy! It is available to pre-order at www.exmoormagazine.co.uk or by calling 0345 224 1203. It will then be sent to …