There’s a good number of handily placed seats on the path which climbs up from the White Spring and excellent excuses for stopping and looking at the spectacular views across the town and over the Somerset Levels. I wanted to show it emerging from the flat moorland as the ancient isle of Avalon.I’ve been up the Tor many times and, whichever way you approach it, it’s a stiff climb. For this image, I wanted to create a glimpse of how this majestic site may have appeared when it was surrounded by ancient flooded marshland. This legend inspired William Blake to write the famous poem ‘Jerusalem’ This gives you some insight into why so many are drawn to the site.
Joseph was a tin merchant and had traveled to the South-West for this valuable metal. Jesus is said to have come to Glastonbury as a boy, traveling here with Joseph of Arimathea. The monks of Glastonbury Abbey claimed to have actually found his grave in 1191. Glastonbury has a long tradition of being ‘The Isle of Avalon’ where King Arthur went after his last battle.
The Cauldron and the Grail were both the object of quests for King Arthur and his knights. Later tradition has it that here lies the Holy Grail brought here by Jesus’s uncle, Joseph of Arimathea. There dwells the lord of the Celtic underworld Gwyn ab Nudd with the Cauldron of Rebirth. Beneath the hill, it is said, that there is a hidden cave through which you can pass into the fairy realm of Annwn. The National Trust manages the site and explains on their website some of the myths linked to the site. The Tor is mentioned in Celtic mythology, and more famously in myths linked to King Arthur. Glastonbury Tor hill is topped by the roofless Grade 1 tower called St Michael’s Tower. Glastonbury Tor is the iconic landmark of Somerset.
Glastonbury Tor Rises Above Ancient Flooded Marsh On The Somerset Levels Somerset’s old English name translates “Land of the Somerset People” This is due that a large part of the land was wetland marsh only liveable during the summer months when dry enough.
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