Quantoxhead

Down to a sunless sea, Elizabeth repeated to herself as she strode eastward along the footpath towards Hinkley from the fabled settlements of East Quantoxhead and Kilve.

Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

"I'm trying to get back to the coast path," she said, "towards Kilve and East Quantoxhead."

Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

West Quantoxhead; and I have learned that it was the name which the outlawed Doone tribe best loved to give their girl children.

Set in Silver 1901

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.

A Thane of Wessex 1884