![]() ![]() During Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, the abbey was sacked and its bishop hung on the Tor.Ĭhristian pilgrims still come to the town but they are outnumbered now by Pagan and New Age pilgrims and by spiritual seekers who are drawn here by the numerous legends that coalesce around key features of the town and surrounding countryside. In medieval times the town and its Abbey rivalled Canterbury as a destination for pilgrims. ![]() Standing on Glastonbury Tor when the mists have rolled in and only hilltops are visible, it is easy to imagine the area as it once was – islands and lake villages on stilts surrounded by water. Glastonbury, in south-west England’s cider-making region of Somerset, is known to spiritual seekers as Avalon, the ‘isle of apples’. ~ St Augustine of Canterbury, 6th cent AD ~ ![]() There is on the confines of western Britain a certain royal island, called in the ancient speech Glastonia, marked out by broad boundaries, girt round with waters rich in fish and with still-flowing rivers, fitted for many uses of human indigence, and dedicated to the most sacred of deities. ![]()
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