Community organiser Jon Barrett says event, inspired by the tradition Solmōnaþ, aims to reconnect people with benefits of mud ...

The statement from the hills committee hopes to keep the Quantocks a low light pollution area Campaigners are stepping up their bid to help protect the "dark skies" status across a Somerset hill ...

Organised by Somerset Food Links (a not-for-profit organisation which works to develop the local food sector in Somerset), the festival celebrates the landscape of the Quantock Hills and gives you a ...

A charity has been criticised for hiring two former soldiers to mount a 24-hour guard over a stag to stop him being shot by hunters. The mature stag, called Red, is well-known in Somerset's Quantock ...

The ponies head to the Quantock Common car park for food Wild ponies on Somerset's Quantock Hills have become aggressive and dangerous while competing for treats left by tourists, it has been warned.

A family has captured these amazing images of a " big cat" on the prowl at a picturesque picnic spot. As big cat fans speculate it could be a panther or puma, a mum has revealed how she and her ...

A local craft brewery, Quantock Hills in Somerset, is the latest drinks company to use a crowdfunding scheme to raise money to invest in its business. A local craft brewery, Quantock Hills in Somerset ...

When I was a child, our annual August pilgrimages to pick bilberries on the Quantock Hills in Somerset were a highlight of the summer holidays. My father would take the Crowcombe road, and park his ...

The Romantic poets were hiking bores. But I didn't realise the full extent of this until reading Adam Nicolson's book, The Making Of Poetry, which focuses on the period Coleridge, the Wordsworths and ...

It is a scene as synonymous with Somerset’s Quantock hills as heather and red deer – wild ponies grazing placidly in combes as neon waterproof-clad hikers clomp merrily by. Now, thanks to the same ...

The Quantock Hills National Landscape Partnership plans to reduce unnecessary outdoor lighting to improve stargazing. It has issued a new Position Statement to improve good lighting practice for any ...