“Now, my friends emerge
Beneath the wide wide Heaven—and view again
The many-steepled tract magnificent
Of hilly fields and meadows, and the sea,”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Quantock Hills Walking Festival
Saturday 25th September and Sunday 26th September 2021
The date for this year’s walking festival will be the weekend of 25th & 26th September. (Not June as previously planned.) September is a great month for walking in the Quantocks so we hope you will be able to join us. This year's walking festival is supported by the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme who have some exciting new walks to contribute
For full details of all the walks please click on the links below
We look forward to seeing friends old and new this September
Upcoming Events
Sat, 25 SepSt Mary's Church Centre25 Sep, 09:30 – 16:00St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKAn undulating circular route from Nether Stowey. Beginning with a swift ascent, this route will rarely stay flat as it loops up and around the contours and combes of the northern Quantock Hills. Expect sometimes challenging terrain, lesser-known paths, but rewarding views of coast and countryside
Sat, 25 SepSt Mary's Church Centre25 Sep, 10:00 – 14:15St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA challenging walk along the north western edge of the Quantock Hills from West Quantoxhead to Halsway Post, with spectacular views over the Brendon Hills to Dunkery Beacon, the highest point on Exmoor. Returning to Nether Stowey via Dead Woman's Ditch and Rectory Wood.
Sat, 25 SepSt Mary's Church Centre25 Sep, 10:15 – 14:45St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKAn atmospheric circular Quantock walk from Holford, in the footsteps of the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. With a visit to Alfoxton Park, Wordsworth's home in 1797 courtesy of the Triatna Buddhists . No dogs permitted on this walk.
Sat, 25 SepSt Mary's Church Centre25 Sep, 10:30 – 26 Sep, 14:30St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA leisurely walk identifying the Quantock flora and fauna along the way. Our route follows the start of the Coleridge Way up to Dowsborough iron-age hillfort with magnificent views across the Bristol Channel to the South Wales coast. We will return to Nether Stowey via Five Lords and Bincombe.
Sat, 25 SepSt Marys Church Centre,
Sun, 26 SepSt Mary's Church Centre26 Sep, 10:00 – 15:30St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA challenging walk, starting from Cothelstone Hill, at the southern end of the Quantocks, we follow the Macmillan Way West to Crowcombe Park Gate via Lydeard Hill and Wills Neck, the Quantock’s highest summit at 384m, before dropping down to Holford Combe and returning to Nether Stowey.
Sun, 26 SepSt Mary's Church Centre26 Sep, 11:00 – 15:00St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA circular walk from Nether Stowey, visiting some of the most significant archaeological features on the Quantocks, exploring both their history and the many stories humans have told, and continue to tell about them.
Sun, 26 SepSt Mary's Church Centre26 Sep, 11:15 – 15:15St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA guided walk around one of the UK's largest wetland habitat creation projects. Your WWT volunteer warden will explain the background to the creation of the reserve, plans for the future, the importance of the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve and help identify any birds seen. Bring binoculars.
Sun, 26 SepSt Mary's Church Centre
Feedback from our 2019 festival:
‘Thank you all for putting on the Festival. I really enjoyed my two walks and look forward to next year’s activities!
All best wishes
Dorothy, Combe Florey, Somerset’
‘At every opportunity over the coming weeks I will be praising The Quantock Hills Walking Festival. Hopefully see you all again in 2020.
Happy walking
Finbarr, Desborough, Northampton’
‘Well done on a lovely festival of walks. Everyone I saw had a smile on their faces!
Kind regards
Linda, Cannington, Somerset’