Seven Sisters (Quantock Hills)

Originally planted in the 18th century, they form a well-known and prominent landmark visible from large areas of Somerset and South Wales.

[3] A newspaper article of the time referred to "Cotherston, the place in Somersetshire, where lady Hilsborough has lately raised a small structure for the purpose of prospect, is so much prized for its situation that several gentlemen of the county offered, if her ladyship would have given her consent, to have subscribed £2,000 and laid out the money in a building more conspicuous".

[5] Similar hilltop groves of beeches, or tree rings, are a common feature of 18th and 19th century landscape planting; other well-known examples include Wittenham Clumps.

As the trees were approaching the end of their lives, in the 1970s a new clump of seven beeches was planted immediately to the south-west: several of the originals fell in gales in the early 2000s.

By 2014, English Heritage determined that the 1970s planting was potentially causing damage to underlying archaeology and stated that the newer trees would be felled, leading to a local campaign to retain them.