“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
Wednesday 8th - Sunday 12th June 2022
We look forward to seeing you for our fourth walking festival this June. Whilst most walks will be at the weekend as usual, this year's walking festival features a long distance walk split over four days starting on Wednesday 8th June
The festival is once again supported by the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme and Somerset Passenger
Solutions/Hinkley Point C
:Full details of all the walks are listed below
Places are limited so book your place today
Upcoming Events
Wed, 08 JunSt Mary's Church Centre08 Jun, 09:00 – 12 Jun, 15:30St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA multi-day circular walk around the Quantock Hills and villages. Challenge yourself to walk around the entire Quantock Hills AONB. From coast to county town, experience the footpaths at the foothills of the Quantocks on this four-day challenge walk.
Thu, 09 JunQuarry Car Park
Sat, 11 JunSt Mary's Church Centre11 Jun, 10:00 – 12 Jun, 15:30St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKSomeone has broken into the safe at the Thomas Poole Library and stolen some valuable books - help find out who did it! Put on your investigative hat and follow the trail to solve the clues that will lead you to the identity of the thief! - A self-guided family treasure hunt around the village.
Sat, 11 JunSt Mary's Church Centre11 Jun, 10:30 – 15:00St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA circular walk starting at the historic settlement of Lilstock with a 'Storywalk', before heading along the England Coast Path to Hinkley Point C, Europe’s biggest construction project. Then inland through the old Fairfield estate.
Sat, 11 JunSt Mary's Church Centre11 Jun, 11:30 – 15:00St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKVisit the sites of local murderer John Walford’s gibbeting and Dowsborough Iron Age hill fort. This circular walk from Nether Stowey involves two moderate ascents (100’) with wonderful views across the Bristol Channel.
Sun, 12 JunSt Mary's Church Centre
Sun, 12 JunSt Mary's Church Centre12 Jun, 10:30 – 15:00St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKThe walk traces a route the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth would have walked in the Quantocks, with pauses to hear about the places and stories that inspired them. From Dorothy’s Glen in Holford, along wooded Hodder’s Combe and out onto the open Quantock ridge.
Sun, 12 JunSt Mary's Church Centre12 Jun, 10:45 – 14:45St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKA circular historical walk between the Norman castles of Nether Stowey and Stogursey along the Castles and Coast Way. Also taking in Stogursey Mill and St Andrews Church, once a Benedictine Priory.
Sun, 12 JunSt Mary's Church Centre12 Jun, 11:45 – 14:45St Mary's Church Centre, 27 St Mary St, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater TA5 1LJ, UKExplore Somerset’s Jurassic coast and discover what lived in the seas that covered West Somerset 200 million years ago. Why are the rocks at Kilve unique? What do fossil ammonites tell us? How does the coastal geology influence the cliff top flora?
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’