Sacred Tours: Glastonbury the Isle of Avalon Glastonbury Tour itinerary The tour takes three hours, with some walking

Wearyall Hill (photo: Bill Glenn)

Chalice Well (photo: Bill Glenn) Glastonbury Abbey (photo: Bill Glenn) PRACTICAL DETAILS Glastonbury Tour Dates Tours leave all year round, twice a day, usually at 10am and 2pm from April to September and by arrangement from October to March. Each tour lasts approximately three hours Tour Cost 1 person - £70.00 2 people - £80.00 3 people - £90.00 4 people - £100.00 Thereafter, £12.00 per person Tour leader: Jamie George Tour Bookings To reserve a place contact: tel: +44 (0)1458 831281 mobile: +44 (0)7768 087766 fax: +44 (0)1458 833385 How to get to Glastonbury

The tour begins at Gothic Image Bookshop in Glastonbury High Street. From there we visit Wearyall Hill - the traditional resting place of St Joseph of Arimathea and the site of the original Holy Thorn of Glastonbury, where Joseph is reputed to have first arrived in Glastonbury.

Then on to the beautiful Chalice Well Gardens where the waters of a natural primary water spring have made a holy place for Christian and Pagan alike, over the millennia. Chalice Well is a place of quietness and reflection. You can partake of the waters of this healing spring.

Glastonbury Tor (photo: Bill Glenn)

Next we visit Glastonbury Tor, a striking natural yet geologically anomalous hill which was shaped into a three-dimensional processional maze, probably in megalithic times (at the same time as the building of Stonehenge and Avebury). It is crowned by the ruined tower of a lost church dedicated to St Michael, the dragon-slaying saint. The church fell down in an earthquake in the 1300s. Glastonbury Tor is now a pilgrimage place for people of all faiths and persuasions.

Then we explore the Abbey, built on ancient holy ground which became the site of the first Christian church in England, built by Joseph of Arimathea and his followers. Here are the remains of a large and magnificent Benedictine monastery which was dissolved by Henry VIII in the 1500s and allowed to go to ruin.

The great tree Gog

We also visit Gog and Magog, two giant oak trees, the sole survivors of an ancient Druid grove and ceremonial path. Gog, at least 1,500 years old, is now virtually dead, but still stands, while Magog survives.

Along the way we investigate the ancient world of the Great Goddess, the legend of the Holy Grail, earth mysteries, ley-lines and earth energies, the sacred geometry of the Abbey, and the theory that the landscape around Glastonbury is shaped in the form of the twelve signs of the zodiac constellations.

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Tours are conducted in small groups, alighting at each site on the way. They leave all year round, twice a day, usually at 10am and 2pm from April to September and by arrangement from October to March.

Your principal guide is Jamie George who is fully knowledgeable of the history, myths and legends of each site. He has escorted groups around the ancient sacred sites of Britain and Ireland for 20 years.

Jamie was a major influence in the inspiration for Marion Zimmer Bradley's best-selling book The Mists of Avalon. He is co-director of Gothic Image Publications - publishers of many valuable books on ancient mysteries, Glastonbury, the arts and modern ideas.

I think I remember this moorland
The tower on the tip of the Tor
I feel in the distance another existence
I think I have been here before
Marcus Bishop

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Glastonbury Abbey

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