Friends of the Quantocks have been treated to two wonderful walks (which were also blessed with good weather), discovering the incredible ritualistic Bronze Age landscape of the Quantocks. The walks were very well attended with lots of interest and fantastic questions …
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There is a good variety of events taking place over the next couple of months, we hope you find something you can enjoy. Whilst we do our best to keep our information up to date, if you are aware of …
There are lots of projects and opportunities to get involved, take a look and we hope you find something for you. Butterfly Surveys These images (green hairstreak and speckled wood butterflies) were taken last summer on Over Stowey Customs Common, …
From John Andrews, Chairman Friends of the Quantocks On 5th December, I wrote on our behalf to Ian Liddell-Grainger and Rebecca Pow, the two MPs whose constituencies cover the AONB, to ask what their positions are on two matters that will …
Having always been an ‘outdoor’ person, I liked nature, being surrounded by it and noticing and observing it. Sometimes I might have felt compelled to try and work out what something was, but Googling things like ‘small pink wildflower’, or ‘beetle …
The deep winter months might be the time of year when we humans veer away from the idea of visiting the open heathland on top of Quantock on a cold foggy day. But for a lot of wildlife it has …
Established in 1949, Friends of Quantock was originally set up to campaign against the felling of ancient woodland in Hodders Combe and the turning over of a large area of heathland to commercial connifer plantation. Whether the name was based on …
Over a month ago we wrote to County Highways about the deteriorating condition of the road across the Quantocks between Nether Stowey and Crowcombe. We still await a reply. As we all know, the metalled surfaces are broken down at …
That’s the title of an article in The Telegraph Magazine last weekend that begins “Wild deer grazing at dusk may be a picturesque sight worthy of Disney, but a recent population explosion has resulted in around two million animals roaming …