Blog | Stowey Walking

Walking for Health in Somerset

Health Walks are designed to attract people of all ages who want to improve their health, meet new people as well as explore their local...

Quantock Hills Walking Festival BBC Interview ...

Listen to Lynne's interview with Simon Parkin of BBC Radio Somerset talking about the upcoming Quantock Hills Walking Festival. 30 June -...

Quantock Hills Walking Festival - 30th June & 1st July

Local estate agent helps promote The Quantock Hills Walking Festival. We have just two weeks to go before the walking festival and we are...

A Quantock View Through Time

The Quantock Hills AONB Service has launched a new website www.quantockviews.uk to capture and record the changing landscape and village...

Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Heritage Lottery Bid

A £1.9 million grant to Quantock Hills ‘Reimagining the Manor’ Scheme has been given initial support by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)...

Walkers are Welcome Towns Boost our Health and Happiness - and the Economy

Here in Nether Stowey and Over Stowey we have been accredited members of the Walkers Are Welcome community for just over a year now....

Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth night walking in the Quantock Hills

‘I walked to Stowey in the evening … Coleridge returned with me, as far as the wood.’ - Dorothy Wordsworth During their brief period of...

The Old Mineral Line in the Brendon Hills

How often do people speed along the B3190 from Watchet, or the B3224 from Bishops Lydeard, towards Wheddon Cross? At the fork in the road...

#SecretSeaWalks

Despite having lived in Somerset for more than 30 years I am ashamed to say there are still many stunning parts of it I have yet to...

Nightjars and Wildflowers - Summer in the Quantock Hills

So how would you choose to spend a Friday evening? In the pub? Maybe watching TV? I, along with about a dozen others, chose to spend our...

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Make a difference and feel better with the Somerset County Council Rights of Way Team!

Fantastic Website for Walkers!

Hiking The Coleridge Way…in 2 Days!

Wintering Birds Nature Walk at Hinkley Point

A £2.6m boost for the Quantocks

A Walk Up Crook Peak

Plant a Tree for National Tree Week - 23rd November - 1st December 2019

Nether Stowey welcomes new initiatives for visitors: Launch of Interpretation Board and Village Sign

Independent Hostels make great places for walkers to stay

Local community groups Stowey Walking and Stowey Green Spaces join forces to make walking safe for a

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