The ‘never bloomless’ hills
ALL golden with the never-bloomless furze… Oh! ’tis a quiet spirit-healing nook!’ wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the Quantock Hills. He, his wife, Sara, and baby son, Hartley, lived in a cottage in Nether Stowey from 1797–99, and his best-known poetry was written there, some famously under the influence of opium, including and . Today, in the company of COUNTRY LIFE’s Deputy Editor,
