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Glastonbury (/ ˈ ɡ l æ s t ən b ər i / GLAST-ən-bər-ee, UK also / ˈ ɡ l ɑː s-/ GLAHST-) is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, 23 miles (37 km) south of Bristol.
Glastonbury with its myths, legends and ley lines has become a centre for New Age culture and spiritual healing. The town is rich with historic buildings. The Tourist Information Centre and Lake Village Museum are located in the Tribunal, a 15th century building thought to be an Abbey Court House.
Welcome to Glastonbury, possibly the quirkiest town in England. Steeped in history, myth and the smell of incense. The home of the famous Glastonbury Festival!
Glastonbury, a town shrouded in mystique and legend, beckons travelers to unearth its rich tapestry of history. This ancient haven, often associated with the fabled Isle of Avalon, is a mosaic of cultural and spiritual landmarks.
- Glastonbury Festival
- Glastonbury Tor
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Abbot’s Kitchen
- Somerset Rural Life Museum
- Chalice Well
- White Spring
- Glastonbury Tribunal
- George Hotel and Pilgrims’ Inn
- St. Margaret’s Chapel and Almshouses
A mainstay of the UK’s summer festival season, Glastonbury is a world-famous performing arts event that sprang from the counter culture of the late 1960s. A lot has changed since the first free festival almost 50 years ago, not least in the price of tickets and how quickly they sell out. Tickets go on sale as early as October, eight months before t...
Venerated since the Iron Age, Glastonbury Tor is an isolated sandstone hill over the Somerset Levels. With almost precipitous slopes that have strange, man-made terracing, the hill crests at 158 metres and is topped by the roofless St Michael’s Tower, the last fragment of a 14th-century church torn down in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was...
Although now an enigmatic ruin, you can’t overstate the power that Glastonbury Abbey wielded in Medieval times. Until it was dissolved in violent fashion, the abbey had massive landholdings around Somerset and its impact can still be felt today. For one it helped drain portions of the low-lying Somerset Levels, but its monks also spread the idea th...
The largest monastic building intact at Glastonbury Abbey, the Abbot’s Kitchen is an amazing slice of Medieval history dating back to the 1300s. This is one of the world’s few surviving Medieval kitchens, built with an octagonal footprint and a pyramidal roof in the time of Abbot John de Breynton (1334-1342). First, it gives a sense of just how wel...
On an idyllic farm around a 14th-century barn, this museum chronicles the history of Glastonbury’s everyday people and has just reopened after a £2.4m makeover. That barn is Grade I listed, and was a “tithe barn” belonging to the abbey and used to store wheat and rye. In the neighbouring farmhouse are galleries going into themes like crafts, educat...
Issuing from the ground near the foot of Glastonbury Tor, Chalice Well is also known as the Red Spring for the reddish hue that comes from iron oxide deposits. These waters have been visited for more than 2,000 years and are believed to have healing properties. You can get there in 10 minutes or so from the centre of Glastonbury. The well itself is...
Over Well House Lane from the Chalice Well is another natural spring rising from the depths of the Tor. What’s interesting is that where the Chalice Well has a red hue for its iron content, the White Spring (as the name tells you) is white for its calcite. The White Spring is housed within a “water temple”, which is actually a vaulted Victorian wel...
Looked after by English heritage, the Glastonbury Tribunal is a 15th-century merchant’s house with a slightly later Tudor facade. Inside, the ground floor is a tourist information centre, but if you go upstairs is the Glastonbury Lake Museum run by the local antiquarian society. The building has lots of riveting period details, like a Tudor Rose an...
An enchanting Gothic building, the George Hotel and Pilgrims’ Inn is thought to be the oldest purpose-built pub in the South West of England. The George Hotel and Pilgrims’ Inn dates from around 1439 and was established to put up pilgrims visiting Glastonbury Abbey. On the High Street take a minute to survey the facade and its three storeys of narr...
On Magdalene Street, this Scheduled Ancient Monument is slightly withdrawn from the road down a close, so is easy to miss. Once belonging to a hospital, the chapel dates to the start of the 14th century and is in a complex of buildings that went up around a century later. With the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the hospital was turned into almshou...
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May 9, 2024 · Glastonbury, town (parish), Mendip district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It is situated on the slopes of a group of hills that rise from the valley of the River Brue to a tor (hill) reaching 518 feet (158 metres) above sea level on the southeastern side of
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