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Updated: May 11, 2025
Triscombe Stone, near the head of Cockercombe, is a famous meet for the staghounds. At Adscombe, near Seven Wells' Combe, are the remains of a chantry which is said to have belonged to the monastery at Athelney. The W. window, with door beneath, still survives. Quantoxhead, East, a parish 4-1/2 m. N.E. from Williton, near the shore. In the churchyard is the shaft of a cross.
Near the church is Court House, an old manor house, with the remains of a pierced parapet. It formerly belonged to the Luttrell family. Quantoxhead, West, a parish 1-1/2 m. E. of Williton. In the parish is St Audries, the seat of Sir A.F. Acland Hood. Queen Charlton, a small village 2 m. S.W. of Keynsham, with the abbey of which it once had an intimate connection.
Now while I ate and thought, it seemed harder to me to leave these hills and combes that I loved than it had seemed overnight; and at last I thought I would traverse them once again, and so make to the headland, above Watchet and Quantoxhead on either side, and then down along the shore, always deserted there, to the hills above Minehead, by skirting round Watchet, and so on into the great and lonely moors beyond, where I could go into house or hamlet without fear of being known.
Do you remember how, when we were boys, we discussed favourite names, and placed Audrey high in the list among those of women? Here, in the Quantock Hills, they spell it "Audrie," for the saint who patronizes West Quantoxhead; and I have learned that it was the name which the outlawed Doone tribe best loved to give their girl children.
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