Crowcombe

England's first protected landscape, a heather ridge above deep wooded combes, with red deer and the sea close by

1 km NE

High moor meeting a dramatic coast, with red deer and some of England's darkest skies.

4.6 km W

Britain's longest standard-gauge heritage line, running steam trains twenty miles from Bishops Lydeard along the coast to Minehead.

5.9 km SE

Thatched village on the western Quantock slopes, with a red-sandstone church and a thousand-year-old yew in its churchyard.

6 km NW · Somerset

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

9.3 km N · spans 24 counties

A secluded Quantock-coast bay of fossil-strewn ledges reached down cliff steps, with a small waterfall spilling onto the beach at low tide.

9.4 km N