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monastic church of St Michael, Glastonbury, Richard Whiting, and Patrick white plaque

Glastonbury, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

monastic church of St Michael, Glastonbury, Richard Whiting, and Patrick white plaque

Glastonbury Tor Glastonbury Tor rises from the lower lias clays and limestones through the middle and upper lias to a deposit of hard Midford sand on the cap. 521 ft. high. Known locally as Tor Burr. This is more resistant to erosion than the lower levels. Making the slopes steep and unstable. These

steep sculptured slopes, rising dramatically from the Isle of Avalon in the flat Somerset levels, have encouraged much speculation about the origin of the Tor in legend. The earliest reference is a m

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