New Years Day Walk | Explore The Quantock Hills

Walk Description:

This 9.5 mile walk takes in some of the best walking on the Quantock Hills AONB.

Starting at Lydeard Hill car park (which can be busy, so get there as soon as you can!), we will follow a broad and muddy path along the Macmillan Way West up to Wills Neck, the highest point on the hills at 386m. Here we can take in 360 views - rolling hills, coastal waters and unbroken swathes of forest.

We will then follow the Way under ancient beech trees to Crowcombe Park Gate car park, before ascending slightly to the weathered trig point at Black Hill, 358m. Then, turning sharply east, we will make our way past Wilmot’s Pool, past Dead Woman’s Ditch (storytime here!), then down into Great Wood.

At Rams Combe there is a picnic area with benches, and should enough be free for our group, we will stop…