The Quantock Hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset, England, consist of heathland, oak woodlands, ancient parklands and agricultural land. They were England's...
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Quantock may mean: "Quantocking" and "Quantocking II", two episodes of Peep Show about visiting the Quantock Hills Quantock Lodge, a mansion in Somerset...
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all of the Mendip Hills, which are both national landscapes; the west contains the Quantock Hills and part of the Blackdown Hills, which are also national...
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15611 The Seven Sisters is a clump of beech trees on Cothelstone Hill in the Quantock Hills, England. Originally planted in the 18th century, they form a...
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see across Somerset to the Blackdown Hills, Quantock Hills and Brendon Hills. There are ancient remains on the hill, in the form of a neolithic Long barrow...
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River Exe. The hills are quite heavily cultivated unlike their neighbouring upland areas of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills. The Brendon Hills are largely...
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number of other groups of hills are also present in the area: the Quantock Hills (Will's Neck: 384 m [1,260 ft]), Blackdown Hills, Dorset Downs, Salisbury...
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village on the Quantock Hills and lies on the Quantock Greenway footpath. Approximately 1 mile (2 km) from the village is the Iron Age hill fort of Ruborough...
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rail and Tube station Seven Sisters Road, North London Seven Sisters (Quantock Hills), a prominent Somerset landmark Seven Sisters Road, St Lawrence, Isle...
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published in 1816). Much of the film was shot on location on and around the Quantock Hills in Somerset. Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Hannah as...
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of West Bagborough lies on the south-west slopes of the Quantock Hills within the Quantock Hills A.O.N.B and encompasses the neighbouring hamlets of Shopnoller...
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environment of the Quantock Hills”. They are an independent charity, funded and governed by their own membership as “guardians of the Quantock Hills on behalf...
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Woman's Ditch," which is part of an Iron Age camp at Dowsborough in the Quantock Hills. In the dark red mud, police also found gold jewellery and buttons from...
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village in Somerset, South West England. It sits in the foothills of the Quantock Hills (England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), just below Over...
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ancient monument in Over Stowey, Somerset, England situated on the Quantock Hills. A linear earthwork consisting of a bank with a ditch along the west...
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filmed in a forest with the derelict silk mill near Holford in the Quantock Hills and on a beach with geological cliff formations near Kilve, Somerset...
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Mendip Hills North Devon Coast North Wessex Downs Quantock Hills South Devon Tamar Valley Wye Valley3 West Midlands Cannock Chase Cotswolds Malvern Hills Shropshire...
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the Quantock Hills, which in 1956 became the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty created in the UK. Large areas of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills are...
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Geography of Somerset (section Hills)
The main upland areas are the Mendip Hills in the east and the Quantock Hills further west, the Blackdown Hills form the county's southern border, and...
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Town Hall. The couple spent their honeymoon first at Asham and the Quantock Hills before travelling to the south of France and on to Spain and Italy....
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and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset. The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was...
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names mean "under-Ham-hill" (where "Ham" is Old English for a small settlement). The Mendip Hills, Blackdown Hills, Quantock Hills and Dorset Downs are...
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The Quantock Greenway is a footpath in the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England, which opened in 2001. The route of the path follows a figure of 8 centred...
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then. Crosse also wrote a great many poems and enjoyed walking on the Quantock Hills, in which Fyne Court is set, "at all hours of day and night, in all...
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extends between the Quantock Hills and the Brendon Hills on the eastern edge of Exmoor and, to the east, between the Quantock Hills and the Somerset Levels...
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Exmoor, East Yorkshire, New Forest, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire, Quantock Hills, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Kent, Wiltshire and Surrey.[citation needed] A...
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estate of 'Over and Nether Stowey' or just the 'Quantock' estate, named after the nearby Quantock Hills. Lord Taunton was then the MP for nearby Taunton...
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suggested from Stolford to Bridport which would have passed through the Quantock Hills near Crowcombe. Alternatively, the Bridgwater and Minehead Junction...
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Hemingway proposed a Bill to be designed to give deer on Exmoor and Quantock Hills statutory protection which would bring an end to the "distressing scenes...
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Hestercombe House (category Quantock Hills)
House is a historic country house in the parish of West Monkton in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton in Somerset, England. The house is a Grade II* listed...
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