Glastonbury Tor, England
This evening, I am posting information on Glastonbury Tor, Somerset which is part of England's West Country. Location is about twenty-seven miles S.W of Bath and six miles west of the site of the Glastonbury Festival (a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts). View of Glastonbury Tor from road St Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor The Tor is a conical hill which, many thousands of years ago, before draining of the local landscape would have formed an island. (Tor is an Old English name for rocky hill.) The site appears to have had spiritual significance for local people both pre and post Christianity. The terracing on the hillside has been dated to Neolithic times, around 3000 BC. In the 10th or 11th century the top was levelled to facilitate construction of a church which was itself levelled by an earthquake in 1275. A smaller church was rebuilt on the site in 1323 and lasted until the demise of nearby Glastonbury Abbey in 1539. After the Reformati...