Vehicle Damage on Quantock Common

Vehicle Damage on Quantock Common

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 …

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New Project Officer – Tracey Roberts

New Project Officer – Tracey Roberts

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 …

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Things Change

Things Change

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 …

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“The Winter King” Quantock Locations

“The Winter King” Quantock Locations

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 …

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Aisholt Lime Kiln

Aisholt Lime Kiln

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, …

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Quietly Disappearing From Our Countryside?

Quietly Disappearing From Our Countryside?

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 …

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Cowberry

Cowberry

It’s not all Bilberry! Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus is one of the commonest plants found across all the Quantock heathlands and down into the coombes in open oak woodland. Bilberry is a wiry low growing plant with small shiny leaves. It has inconspicuous, …

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Quantock streams: More than just water

Quantock streams: More than just water

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 …

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FoQ is Looking for a New Publicity & Events Manager

FoQ is Looking for a New Publicity & Events Manager

We are a charity that works to help safeguard the landscape and natural environment of the Quantock Hills and its surroundings, for example by responding to planning applications, carrying-out wildlife and habitat surveys and running events. We own some land …

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