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Rollo Maughfling helped pioneer Glastonbury's modern Druidic revival. Here are his top ways to enjoy the spiritual town ...
The town of Glastonbury is on the main road that runs south from Bristol, a few miles south of Wells on the way to Yeovil. The ruined Glastonbury Abbey, which is open to visitors (adults £11, children ...
Glastonbury, famed for its festival, mythology and mystical tor, ... The flagship suite welcomes in views of the Abbey ruins. The Gothic Church, Wells. This 19th-century church, ...
They scaled the steep path up the 520-foot Glastonbury Tor, to check out the ruins of 14th-century St Michael's Church, built on the site of a previous building that was destroyed by one of the ...
Legend has it that King Arthur and his wife Guinevere are interred within the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, south of the ... the surrounding countryside and the remnants of a 14th-century church.
This was not the Glastonbury Festival, by the way — that annual Somerset musical extravaganza that has been going since the 1970s (News, 5 July) — but the Glastonbury Anglican Pilgrimage. This has ...
The Holy Thorn also has royal connections. Every Dec. 8, in a tradition dating back nearly a century, a sprig of Holy Thorn is taken from a specimen growing in a Glastonbury churchyard and sent to ...
Glastonbury Abbey was famous for its library, but many of its works were lost when Henry VIII ordered its dissolution in 1539 following his split from the Catholic Church.
A page from a bible crafted 800 years ago by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey is on public display at its former home for the first time. The double-sided sheet is made from vellum, a specially ...