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Geographical Magazine Discovering Britain: Walking the Quantocks with Wordsworth and Coleridge Written by Rory Walsh The view from Quantock Hills Somerset England UK towards Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station and the Bristol Channel on a summer evening 17 Feb For Discovering Britain this month, Rory Walsh takes a Romantic stroll in the Quantocks I wondered, lonely as a cloud that floats up high above hills and dales, when will I next join a crowd, see my gran, or visit Wales? Apologies to William Wordsworth. While I’ve spent most of the past year indoors ‘in pensive mood’, Wordsworth’s original lines were written during a different ‘bliss of solitude’. From 1797, Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy, and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge enjoyed a year living and walking in the Quantock Hills. Wordsworth recalled, ‘upon smooth Quantock’s airy ridge we roved, unchecked, or loitered ’ ....