The famous Tor located just outside the town is reputed, according to folklore, to have once been the site of a stronghold of King Arthur and guarded the entrance to Annwn (The Underworld). In the middle ages monks built a church on the same site which was later destroyed by an earthquake.

Along with the Tor, at the base of the hill is the Chalice Well and according to legend it is the site where Joseph of Arimathea threw the chalice used at The Last Supper by Jesus. It is also said that Joseph of Arimathea (Great Uncle of Jesus) brought the boy Jesus to Glastonbury.

Within the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, situated in the town centre, stands the Glastonbury Thorn, which blooms every year and is said to be of the staff that Joseph of Arimathea placed in the ground whereupon it took root.

According to legend, Arthur and Guinevere are said to be buried within the Abbey grounds. Monks, in 1190, found remains of a man which were said to have had the inscription, "Here lies the renowned Arthur, in The Isle of Avalon". These bones were reburied in a black marble tomb which was later destroyed in the dissolution of the abbey in 1539 after Henry VIII closed down abbeys and monasteries when he split from the Catholic Church.

In 1907 The Church of England purchased the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. Frederick Bligth Bond, who was directing the excavations at the time, argued that the abbey's construction had been based around a sacred geometry, originally known by the Egyptian Pyramid builders, which had then been passed down through generations of stonemasons. Although the Church of England dismissed Bond from his position when he published these thoughts in his book, ‘The Gate of Remembrance', in 1921, Bond also connected Stonehenge and Avebury with Glastonbury by lines now referred to as Ley Lines/Earth Energy Lines.

Katherine Maltwood, in 1929, offered the theory that many formations in and around the Glastonbury area could be argued to recreate the 12 signs of the zodiac. Glastonbury was also the home of the famous occultist, Dion Fortune, who spent the second half of her life in a house near the base of the Tor.

The town itself offers an inspiring ecletic mix of New Age/Alternative shops and stalls covering everything from crystals to religion and is a must for anyone who claims to be remotely interested in the Mystical/Religious World. It is also very famous for the Glastonbury Festival.