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Running inland from the sea at West Quantoxhead to the very outskirts of Taunton are the Quantocks Hills, another area of outstanding natural beauty, but another very different landscape, with heather and bracken-clad hilltops giving a foretaste of Exmoor, away to the west.
Breezy open moorland provides fine walking country which has been appreciated, since Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby while, with the ground falling away on all sides, the views are almost endless, stretching on a fine day for up to forty miles. Abundant wildlife here includes a large herd of red deer.
The Quantocks lie on a particularly hard form of sandstone much valued for its use as surface dressing on roads; happily, quarrying has now been halted and nature is starting to reclaim the great bowl of Triscombe Quarry, near Crowcombe. |
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