Glastonbury And King Arthur Private Day Tour

Itinerary
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Stop At: Avebury Stone Circle, Herepath Marlborough, Avebury SN8 1RF England

This mystical stone circle makes a perfect half way stop to or from London

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Glastonbury Tor, off Wellhouse Lane, Glastonbury England

See the famous Glastonbury Tor, perhaps walk to the top if you are feeling up for it!

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Glastonbury Abbey, Abbey Gatehouse Magdalene Street, Glastonbury BA6 9EL England

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey you may find the grave of King Arthur himself!

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Chalice Well, Wellhouse Lane, Glastonbury BA6 8BL England

Wells often feature in Welsh and Irish mythology as gateways to the spirit world. The overlapping of the inner and outer worlds is represented by the well cover, designed by the church architect and archaeologist Frederick Bligh Bond and presented as a gift after the Great War in 1919. The two interlocking circles constitute the symbol known as the Vesica Piscis. In the well lid design, a spear or a sword bisects these two circles, a possible reference to Excalibur, the sword of the legendary King Arthur, believed by some to be buried at the nearby Glastonbury Abbey. Foliage represents the Glastonbury Thorn. Bligh Bond wrote that the vesica design for the well cover was "typical of many early diagrams, all having the same object – the rendering of spiritual truth by means of the purest, most intellectual system of imagery conceived by the mind, namely, truth which is ‘aeonial’ or eternal, of which geometry is the best interpreter, since it can figure for us with remarkable suggestiveness those formative principles upon which the Father has built his Creation, principles which shall endure when heaven and earth have died."[3]

Christian mythology suggests that Chalice Well marks the site where Joseph of Arimathea placed the chalice that had caught the drops of Christ's blood at the Crucifixion, linking the Well to the wealth of speculation surrounding the existence of the Holy Grail. The red of the water is also said by some Christians to represent the rusty iron nails used at the Crucifixion.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Ye Olde England Tours, London England

This tour is provided by Ye Olde England Tours

Duration: 9 hours