| Pilton, Somerset |
Article Index for Pilton |
Website Links For Pilton |
Information AboutPilton, Somerset |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT PILTON, SOMERSET | |
| villages in somerset | |
| glastonbury festival | |
| mendip | |
|
Pilton is now almost 20 Mile s from the sea but sits on the edge of the Somerset Levels , an area which has now been drained but was once a shallow tidal lake. In Saxon times Pilton, then known as Pooltown, was a harbour and according to legend it is where Joseph Of Arimathea landed in Britain in the 1st Century . The present Norman and Medieval village church may stand on the site of an earlier Wattle And Daub church built by the early missionaries. The village has a Manor House and a Tithe Barn which belonged to Glastonbury Abbey . Pilton is famous as the location of the Glastonbury Festival . REFERENCES
|
|
|