Describes the scenery, wildlife, villages and people which combine to make the Quantock Hills one of the unspoilt gems of the English countryside. Each chapter in this book looks at a different aspect of the region: its geology and landscape; its history from the Bronze Age to the present day; it collection of birds, diverse plants and animals, including the wild red deer; the villages; connections with writers and poets; and the working landscape, which links with the adjoining Brendon Hills.

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The Quantocks is a range of hills in Somerset.

Exmoor National Park comprises 265 square miles, of which about two-thirds lie in west Somerset and the remaining third in north Devon. Its northern boundary is the Bristol Channel coast, stretching in a dramatic series of cliffs interrupted only by the Vale of Porlock, from North Hill above Minehead in the east to Little Hangman above Combe Martin in the west. This collection of walks ranges from the bare expanses of the Chains, the last real wilderness on Exmoor, to a picturesque riverside route along the Exe, from Badgworthy Water to a coastal walk taking in the spectacular Valley of the Rocks.