Coleridge Way

4 days walking, based in Minehead

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The Coleridge Way is an exhilarating 36 mile (59km) walk through the Quantock Hills (Britain’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), the Brendon Hills and Exmoor National Park. The route celebrates the association of the romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the airy ridges, wooded valleys and hilltop vistas which inspired much of his work.

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The route begins at Nether Stowey, Coleridge’s former home, and works its way westwards, traversing the whaleback ridge of the Quantocks and exploring the idyllic combes which cut into the flanks of the hills. From Bicknoller, one of the areas most attractive villages, it crosses the Brendon Hills to Wheddon Cross and then takes a superb route across Exmoor, via Webber’s Post, the East Water Valley and Doverhay Hill, to its conclusion in Porlock.

• Introduction
• The Cornish Coast Path
• Coleridge Way
• Wessex Ridgeway
• Weavers Way
• Pembrokeshire Coast Path
• Brontë Way
• The Pennine Way
• Coast to Coast Walk
• Dales Way
• Yorkshire Wolds Way
• Cumbria Way
• Furness Way
• Hadrians Wall Path
• Reivers' Way
• Rob Roy Way