
Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme
@quantocklps
Working with the Quantock Hills AONB & National Lottery Heritage Fund to Reimagine the manor and Live, Learn and Inspire our local communities.
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http://www.qlps.org 22-10-2020 10:36:50
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Do you remember our #ViewToAHill project? We asked for your favourite views of Quantock Hills National Landscape last Spring. We've whittled down over 70 views to 12 and a crack team of volunteers have been researching the views all year. Can you guess where this picture was taken? 📸 Fiona Fyfe


The document of the month from Somerset Archives is... a colourful early 19th century plan of #EastQuantoxhead from the Luttrell collection (DD/L). Some buildings are shown in elevation, including the newly built parsonage house #DocumentOfTheMonth #SomersetLocalStudies #Heritage


Did you guess where our View of the Quantock Hills National Landscape was from? It's on the Coleridge Way, outside Sampford Brett. If you want to find out about the other views, read the full report now available linktr.ee/qlps Thanks to Fiona Fyfe Associates The National Lottery Heritage Fund #Heritage

Smiles for miles around @Quantockhills 📷 A family of Photo Walkers taking to the countryside with us for our 11.5km Long Route from Bishop's Lydeard. Thanks to the New Inn Community Pub, Halse and West Somerset Railway 📷 A great #EarthDay connecting with our The National Lottery Heritage Fund projects.


What a day to be an adder on Quantock Hills National Landscape! 📷 We spent Thursday morning with a team from Hinkley Point C joining us to look for adders sunbathing on the hills. The group found a gorgeous female and a freshly sloughed skin, thanks to some keen-eyed surveying. The National Lottery Heritage Fund


Our first Quantocks Wildlife Watch with Friends of the Quantocks is happening this weekend! 📍St Mary's Church Centre, Nether Stowey 🕰️This Saturday, from 10am 🐾Children's Crafts with Woodland Play Centre 🌳Nature activities, guided walks, citizen science No need to book, just come on down!


On #SomersetDay we’d like to celebrate the communities we work with around Quantock Hills National Landscape that call #Somerset home. We work with lots of communities who support and preserve our #landscape, enjoy its #wellbeing benefits, build new #traditions, and make Somerset a special place.


Sound up! Up at 4am for a beautiful dawn chorus walk at Holford, #QuantockHills #Somerset with Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme, then breakfast at Combe House Hotel. Excited to spot a pied flycatcher, but the song thrushes and wrens were definitely on lead vocals! 🐦⬛💚 #nature #wildlife #birds

Document of the month from Somerset Archives is this grant of property at Westleigh, #LydeardStLawrence, dated 1456. It describes the property & lists the members of the family who will inherit - deeds can be hard to read but can contain a lot of information. #Archives #HowOld


Let the good times stroll! Join us for our next Photo Walk tomorrow Saturday, 20th May Plowright Organic Coleridge Cottage eventbrite.co.uk/e/626335786197 Book Now and join the walking party! 🎉 🌞🥾


Just over a week ago we hosted the incredible humans from Queer Hiking Bristol on Quantock Hills National Landscape History, hiking and how our heritage helps us consider the safe and unprejudiced spaces in the natural environment. Thanks The National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these connections possible 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️


We received our mid term evaluation report from Heritage Insider recently. Key findings; lots of great work done with communities across Quantock Hills National Landscape, and potential to do so much more! Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for giving us these opportunities. 👉 qlps.org/qlps-mid-term-…


Ain't no party like an Afri-Quan party! Such a lovely day in the sunshine with our African communities living around Quantock Hills National Landscape, celebrating some of the friendships new and old. Thanks to everyone in the Afri-Quan community for making this happen. The National Lottery Heritage Fund


🌾🌿🎋Hay, have you heard about the Orchard and Hay meadow walk being run by our friend Pete Baker on Tuesday evening? Booking essential, contact Pete directly on [email protected] Quantock Hills National Landscape #GetOutside #MeadowFlowers


Document of the month from Somerset Archives is a map of #Williton, showing the junction of Tower Hill, Priest Street and Long Street in 1862. How has the town changed? You can compare it to online mapping to see. #Maps #UrbanDevelopment #Archives


When's the next walk? 💨🌻💨 Fascinating orchid and hay meadow flowers walk with Pete Baker this week. We'll continue to post more events like these on our website qlps.org Lots happening across Quantock Hills National Landscape this summer


Do you want to work with us? We are looking for a part time Community Engagement and Volunteering Officer to expand our engagement team. You’ll be working to develop and deliver a wide range of activities and events to communities across Quantock Hills National Landscape. somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-caree…


Do you want to explore Blue Bridgwater? Join our next photo walk finishing Bridgwater Arts Centre Out of the Blue exhibition, part of WWT Steart Marshes Somerset Council Friends of the Meads Bridgwater Blue Heritage project. 🕰️ Wednesday 12th July 10am 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/quantock-hil…

