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Virtually Glastonbury

I’ve put together some links so you can enjoy Glastonbury and learn more about the town, without actually being here. I hope locals will find something new of interest here too. There’s some links to content I’ve posted, in case you missed it the first time plus links to the best websites and videos from other people too.

Take a Tour

You can take a virtual tour of the Town with Google Street View , here’s a link that starts off in the High Street at Glastonbury Galleries.

Or, you can get a bird’s eye view of the town with Google Earth, here’s a link that starts you off in Glastonbury Abbey .

Read a Book or Listen to Music from Glastonbury

Nothing transports you to the town quite like a good book set in Glastonbury or listening to a tune by one out our excellent local musicians, here’s some of my recommendations…..

Glastonbury in Fiction

Music from Glastonbury Town Online

Normal For Glastonbury – The Book

You can now buy my Book of the best of Normal For Glastonbury. It’s all about what it’s really like to live in England’s most magical town. I’ve polished up my best articles from the last four years and added a couple of things you won’t have seen yet.

Amazon Kindle eBook £3.99, paperback £9.99. Click on the cover for more information.

Videos from Glastonbury

I’ve taken quite a few videos on the streets of Glastonbury over the last few years, you can browse them on the Normal For Glastonbury YouTube channel. The slide show of photographs taken in the town, with music by local musicians, might be a good place to start.

I’ve videoed lots of buskers, events and local characters, you’ll find them all by browsing the Normal For Glastonbury YouTube channel. To start, check out the Gin Bowlers busking in the High Street one bright Spring Day in 2017.

Shop Online from Glastonbury Creatives

You can support a local business by buying online, here’s a directory I made of businesses trading during the Corona Virus lockdown.

Support Glastonbury

Learn about Glastonbury’s History

If you want to learn more about Glastonbury rich and fascinating history then these sites are a treasure trove of information:

Glastonbury Antiquarians

British history online: glastonbury, go back in time.

In the first of these wonderfully atmospheric videos, you can take a trip back in time 2200 years, to Glastonbury’s Lake Village. The second takes you back to the Mesolithic era.

For some more recent history have a listen to ‘Tracing the Map’ a fascinating series of audio recordings interviewing locals talking about 100 years of changes to the Town. Or, David Taplin’s excellent guest post on Normal For Glastonbury about life in the town in the 1970’s, there’s some great photos from Mike Lidgley in this piece too.

Glastonbury Town In the Seventies

I highly recommend you check out this wonderful film on the British Film Institute page of Glastonbury in 1922 .

You can also read historian Adam Stout’s account of following in the footsteps of John Jackson, who undertook a pilgrimage from Yorkshire to Glastonbury in 1755: Strange Alteration – A Walk across Time to Glastonbury .

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Documentaries

As interest in the Town has grown, hundreds of documentaries have been produced, here’s some of my favourites:

Like this one from Jamie Lowe, I love the footage of the Tor in the snow at the start, or this BBC Music piece in which Martin Dougan “explores the special qualities of the place which gives the festival its name”. 

You can also watch a nice little tour of Chalice Well from Laura Daligan and a video looking at the archaeology and history of Glastonbury Abbey.

Follow the Ley Lines on Google Maps

This Ley Line Map is fun.

Or you can read Palden’s excellent site about the Ancient Landscape Around Glastonbury

Haunted Glastonbury 

American Writer and photographer Todd Attebury beautifully evokes the spirit of Glastonbury in his writing

Hanging out amongst the spirits at Glastonbury’s George and Pilgrim Hotel

Comedian Mark Steel featured Glastonbury on his popular show ‘ Mark Steel’s in Town: Glastonbury ’ in 2014, you can listen to it here (may not be available in all countries)

Other excellent Glastonbury sites and pages

When I started out with Normal For Glastonbury there wasn’t a lot on the internet about the town, except for Glastonbury Online. There is now a proliferation of sites which connect you to the community. Do check out these:

Welcome to Glastonbury

The Unity Through Diversity is an excellent resource, particularly for those looking for information on Pilgrimage to the Town and the many faiths represented here. Also, check out the Glaston Centre website and Glastonbury Avalon of the Heart and the Glastonbury Unity Candle on Facebook.

If you are a more visual person, you might enjoy my photographs on Instagram @normalforglastonbury

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There’s a lot out there on the web about all aspects of the the town, this is only a small sample, if you come across something you think I should include please do send me a link.

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6 thoughts on “virtually glastonbury”.

Thanks very much for the great resources! I love staying in touch after our visit a year ago. It is so magical in many ways. Blessinigs!

I’m so glad you like it Diane, thank you.

A trip round the wetland village, relaxing and fascinating and you wonder why only a hundred years, but humans like to move on, see if there is something better!

I recall reading that when they excavated the site of the Glastonbury Lake Village they found a lot of heads on sharpened sticks on the boundary. No one knows whether they were vanquished enemies, or perhaps the heads of the Lake Villagers’ themselves, so it may be that they didn’t just move on willingly. I try not to dwell too much on that and just enjoy the idea of the peace and tranquility of life in the wetlands!

What a FEAST! Thank you so much for putting this all together. I’ve just read your e-book and it’s fabulous! And on the back of that have joined the NFG members. Having moved here 9 months before everything went dormant it’s lovely to spend some time getting to know the place with these posts. We LOVE living here (after 57 years in London). Thanks again for providing this space and resource. Xxx

Oh thank you Audrey, that’s so great to hear! Well i do hope I get to meet you once we can all go out again. It’s so odd at the moment, I’m really missing the charity shops in particular. I will get your membership certificate off to you shortly. Best wishes, Vicki xx

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Are you missing Glastonbury and the sacred Celtic lands of England? Well don’t worry we can bring them to you. Tor’s Tours are doing seven virtual tours of Glastonbury throughout October and November 2020. Each one will have a visualisation for each of the chakras starting at the root Saturday 24th of Oct and ending at the crown Saturday 12th of December. Check them out: Seven Glastonbury Virtual Tours with Chakra Visualisations from the Root to the Crown Group:

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Seven Glastonbury Virtual Tours with Chakra Visualisations

From the root to the crown.  .

The Root Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 24th of October Event: https://fb.me/e/1wjJ1Fn9m?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/637721330266381/?ref=share

The Sacral Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 31st of October Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-sacral-chakra-glastonbury-/742571616592135/?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/357094658808520/?ref=share  

The Solar Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 7th November Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-solar-chakra-glastonbury-v/330921518244951/?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/607548753255732/?ref=share

The Heart Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 14th November Event: https://fb.me/e/d5Hmrkf3J?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/274908766831859/?ref=share

Virtual Tours 

London - bath - tintagel.

Tor's Tours is offering virtual and interactive tours of London, Bath and Tintagel, throughout October and November.

Other tours will be available.

3:30pm BST - 6:pm BST 10:30am New York, 7:30am LA, 4:30pm rest of Europe. Suggested donation £10 / $12

Watch the London virtual tour from Friday 2nd of October

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Bath virtual tour coming soon.

Tintagel virtual tour comings soon.

The Throat Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 28th November Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-throat-chakra-glastonbury-/690204181849070/?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/633539547352757/?ref=share

The Third Eye Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 5th of December Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-third-eye-chakra-glastonbu/795713301186653/?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/816822885726789/?ref=share

The Crown Chakra Glastonbury virtual tour Saturday 12th of December Event: https://fb.me/e/2YLS7BShc?ti=icl Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/784739472301011/?ref=share