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Walks and rides

Craving wide open spaces, babbling brooks, sweet smelling pine forests, ancient oak woods and wild Jurassic Coast? These routes will allow you to explore all the special areas of the Quantock Hills 

Sign in front of historic cottage, the home of Samuel Taylor-Coleridge

Walk 51 miles through the stunning Somerset countryside of the Quantock Hills, the Brendon Hills and Exmoor, a landscape that inspired Coleridge to produce some of his best known work. 

A restored lime kiln in a woodland

A short walk exploring woodland around Hawkridge Reserviour with a restored limekiln and some hidden views.

A childs hand next to a large ammonite fossil on a beach

Created in 2016 and building on the West Somerset Coast Path this section of the England Coast Path explores great geology and history from the forts at Brean Down to the Jurassic Coast at Listock and Kilve

A group of people with some in trampers and some walking through a woodland

A lovely route on forest roads exploring Forestry Englands Great Wood with magnificant towering conifer trees and hidden wildlife.

A Disabled Ramblers Route - Explore the heathland summits and ancient sessile oak woods in this middle distance circular route.

A Disabled Ramblers Route - From the woodland of Ramscombe to the highest point on the Quantock Hills this route explores both the intimate habitats to the wide open vistas

A clump of mature beech trees on top of a frosty hill

This walk explores the woodlands and grasslands of Cothelstone Hill taking in views across the whole of Somerset

A cliff and rocky beach with layered bands of different rocks

Explore the facinating history and geology of the wonderful Quantock Hills coast with this gentle walk

A conifer plantation in sunlight

A lovely walk on forest roads exploring Forestry Englands Great Wood with magnificant towering conifer trees and hidden wildlife.

This walking trail takes you down through broadleaf woodland, into a bracken-filled combe and up to the top of Beacon Hill for views across the Quantock Hills and beyond. Continue through lowland heathland, listening and looking out for red deer, skylark and Dartford warbler in this wildlife-rich environment.

Walking with Wheels provide information and grading on routes to show whether they are accessible for all, many or some.

A Disabled Ramblers Route - From the woodland of Ramscombe to the summit at Black Hill and back via the Iron Age hillfort of Dowsborough this route passes through some of the best the Quantock Hills has to offer.

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