Paul C Stokes
Glastonbury Tor (Explored #1)
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Took a drive about 45 minutes south with my father yesterday to snap a few shots of this amazing building. Even more amazing is the fact the hill its on is so bloody steep its a wonder how it was built up there in the first place.
Glastonbury Tor is a hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, which features the roofless St. Michael's Tower and is all that remains of a fourteenth-century chapel, a replacement for an earlier church destroyed by an earthquake in 1275.
Tor is a local word of Celtic origin meaning 'conical hill'. The Tor has a striking location in the middle of a plain called the Summerland Meadows, part of the Somerset Levels.
The Tor has been associated with the name Avalon, and identified, since the alleged discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's neatly labelled coffins in 1191, with the legendary hero King Arthur. Modern archaeology has revealed a fort, dated to the 5th century.
www.glastonburytor.org.uk/index.html
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Glastonbury Tor (Explored #1)
I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to view comment and fave this image, I am blown away by the response it has received. Never did I think one of my shots would make the front page let alone the top spot.
Thanks again for all the support over the past 14 months.
Took a drive about 45 minutes south with my father yesterday to snap a few shots of this amazing building. Even more amazing is the fact the hill its on is so bloody steep its a wonder how it was built up there in the first place.
Glastonbury Tor is a hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, which features the roofless St. Michael's Tower and is all that remains of a fourteenth-century chapel, a replacement for an earlier church destroyed by an earthquake in 1275.
Tor is a local word of Celtic origin meaning 'conical hill'. The Tor has a striking location in the middle of a plain called the Summerland Meadows, part of the Somerset Levels.
The Tor has been associated with the name Avalon, and identified, since the alleged discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's neatly labelled coffins in 1191, with the legendary hero King Arthur. Modern archaeology has revealed a fort, dated to the 5th century.
www.glastonburytor.org.uk/index.html
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