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NETHER STOWEY
The Romantic poet Samuel
Taylor Coleridge lived here among the
beautiful Quantock Hills for two years in the
late 18th century and his old
cottage is now one of the treasures of the
National Trust. He wrote his famous ‘Rime of
the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’ here. He
also penned ‘Lyrical Ballads’ with his fellow
poet Wordsworth who lived briefly at nearby
Holford. The prehistoric earthwork
Danesborough Camp sits in an oval above the
village.
