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Somerset Coast The Quantock Hills and Somerset Coast: the Quantocks are the beautiful hills – high against the farming vales to either side – stretching over 40 square miles from Taunton, Somerset’s capital, to the Bristol Channel sea, separated from Exmoor by a plain of cornfield farmland (here’s Stogumber). Wooded, heather-topped, ‘of outstanding natural beauty’, like Exmoor they are home to the red deer and were to Wordsworth and Coleridge. Superb walks/rides, tremendous views (to Exmoor, Sedgemoor, the sea), ‘deep romantic’ valleys, pretty old villages. Near Taunton are the Lutyens designed Hestercombe Gardens. Several visitable vineyards around. Along the Quantocks’ western foot chugs the private steam railway from Bishop’s Lydeard to Minehead. |
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Somerset's Heart Somerset's Heart, north and south: dairy cows in lush water-meadows, huge rolling cornfields, immense views, dark chocolate ploughed fields, luxuriant cottage gardens (roses), orchards, and the hedgerows alive with songbirds. Here, in the Vale of Taunton, between Exmoor, the Quantocks and the Blackdown Hills, is some of the richest farmland in England, and wonderfully unspoilt and peaceful. Taunton (two terrific church towers and good county cricket ground), Wellington (good looking small town) and Milverton (extremely pretty large village) are its main centres. To the north are the limestone Mendip Hills, splendid for walking, containing caves and Cheddar Gorge. In Somerset's middle is the positively un-English flatness of Sedgemoor (where Monmouth enticed the West Country's farmers to be slaughtered for him) with cattle at sunset as in a classical painting, villages on low hills like islands above streams lined with willows for baskets, a bird sanctuary, and Athelney where the cakes were burned. Nearby are Glastonbury with its tor and legends (and festival) and Wells with its tremendous cathedral. And to the south is the Hamstone country - beautiful rolling dairy farmland where almost every house/cottage is of the golden stone from Ham Hill, and every few miles you come across magnificent houses/gardens (some Nat. Trust) open to the public and glowing villages with old pubs and splendid churches. It lies mainly between the A30 and A358; Hinton St George is perhaps the loveliest Hamstone village. At Yeovilton is the excellent Fleet Air Arm Museum (including Concorde); Ham Hill has an Iron Age/Roman fort on its top, and Cricket St Thomas has a wildlife park. Few beautiful-country areas are so rich in interesting and splendid man-made things to see. |
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Upton Somerset Upton: wooded hamlet south of the Brendon Hills on the eastern edge of Exmoor and within walking distance of Wimbleball Lake (watersports tuition, reservoir trout fishing, 9 mile round-lake walk with tea room en route). Dunster and coast, 12-15 miles. |
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