With the recent colder weather there have been a number of sightings of beautiful hair ice on the Quantocks. It is associated with the presence of the fungus Exidiopsis effusa within decomposing wood. The fungus has a component which stabilises the ice in the hair …
While the Landscape Partnership Scheme celebrates hedgerows with wildlife surveys, organises hedge maintenance courses and has been giving substantial grants for planting traditional mixed hedgerows people are generally shocked to learn not only that ancient farm hedges have been recently …
There has been an increase in casual nocturnal off-roading on both sides of the Stowey – Crowcombe Road with considerable damage around the Dead Woman’s Ditch Car Park. That is in addition to the damage caused by an all night …
Originally from Yorkshire, Tracey moved to West Somerset twenty-four years ago, fulfilling a long-held dream to live by the sea. In a career managing arts and cultural charities and delivering consultancy across the voluntary and public sectors, and more recently …
During the last Devensian ice age, for around 50,000 years the Quantocks sat a little south of a vast wall of ice, sitting roughly where Bristol is now. The leading edge of this ice sheet lay roughly along a diagonal …
During the summer of 2022 you may have spotted a number of vehicles, horses and Arthurian soldiers wondering about the hills and now you can see the results on ITVX. Production company Bad Wolf used a number of local locations to …
A project to preserve an historic lime kiln located at Aisholt in the Quantock Hills, has recently been completed. Robert White, of Durborough Farm and brother-in-law, Peter Baker, have been working on the preservation project over the last eighteen months, …
A familiar sight for many has been quietly disappearing from the countryside right before our eyes; within a generation it may be consigned to history…the humble small bale. When did you last see them dotted in reassuring lines across a …
One morning a month I can be found with my colleague Mike Laver on the banks of one of three streams on the East side of the Quantocks, either standing in the stream wielding an orange net or peering into …
