This month sees us one year in to our ambitious Quantock Wildlife Watch citizen science project. To date we have 446 people who have recorded >1,800 species through a total of c7,500 observations and the numbers are growing all the time. …
Having lobbied Somerset Highways for some improvement of the road condition between Crowcombe and Nether / Over Stowey, we conducted a poll with our social media followers to get their views on designated passing places. We asked: “Many of you will …
Did you know within the Quantocks AONB there are at least 34 named hills/peaks? Have you ‘bagged’ them all? The highest of our peaks is Will’s Neck at 384m above sea level with by far the most dramatic prominence of 260m …
Have you ever wondered about the history buried beneath your garden? This autumn is your chance to find out. For four days, from 19th – 22nd October, archaeologists from Past Participate, supported by the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme (QLPS), will be in …
We have set out below details of four species that you may be interested to try and spot in the coming weeks and months, three of which can be quite a challenge to see, can you bag all four? So …
It is hard to believe that we are already starting to see the days shorten after this year’s fabulous Midsummers Day. Over the past four months we have had a new AONB Partnership, a result of the formation of a …
We have just commissioned and received a survey of all 29 Quantock mires, carried out for us by a professional botanist Dr James McGill. The aim of the survey was to find out what uncommon plants are present (or not) in …
Across the UK, it’s the landscapes with calcareous, chalky soils that have the reputation for supporting the greatest diversity of orchids, but our sandy, slightly acidic soils are just right for several type of orchid. Despite so many very dry …
Following the publicity drive last year we rapidly assembled a large group of volunteer butterfly surveyors: we even had to turn one or two away as we had such good numbers; apologies again to anyone who was disappointed. We are …
Beatrix F. Cresswell’s 1909 guidebook ‘The Quantock Hills, their Combes & Villages’ says On the way to Over Stowey, a mile from Nether Stowey, we pass Marsh Mills, a house standing at the junction of four cross roads. It is …