Vanda Lloyd
WALKING AROUND GLASTONBURY BOOKS, BOOKS ABOUT GLASTONBURY TOWN AND AREA and EXPERIENCING THE COLERIDGE WAY
Walking Around Glastonbury and Walking Around Glastonbury Tor and Walking Around Glastonbury Tor from the Old Oaks Touring Park.
These books feature walks through the town of Glastonbury, taking you also into the beautiful countryside around the town as you walk. The walks in Walking Around Glastonbury and Walking Around Glastonbury Tor start either from the top of Glastonbury High Street or by the Town Hall, taking in the features of the Town Centre at the beginning and end of the walks.
The Walking Around Glastonbury book also gives you suggested places to visit in the surrounding area where Glastonbury Tor can be seen. From places like Brean Down, to Ebbor Gorge and the beautiful Somerset Levels, all within a short distance of Glastonbury.
The Walking Around Glastonbury Tor from the Old Oaks Touring Site features walks around Glastonbury Tor and nto the town starting and finishing at the Old Oaks Site.
All books feature small full colour photographs.
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Experiencing the Coleridge Way, while this isn't a walking guide book, it is a book featuring full colour photographs and description of places along the Coleridge Way and nearby. It is a book more about the experience of walking The Coleridge Way with limitations rather than a route guide. From Somerset into Devon the Coleridge Way isn't just a walk, its an experience.
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Walking Around Glastonbury
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There are many walking books, for short walks and serious ramblers, that isn’t the intention with this book. Nor is the intention to say how short or long a walk is by miles, time, or suitability. Again there are books, apps, and maps for those that prefer to walk this way. After all what may be a long walk to one person can be a short walk to another and what may seem hard to one may be easy to another. Each person is different and has different capabilities.
The intention with this book is to show the enjoyment that can be had on these walks, the views, the feel of the area, not just on the High Street in Glastonbury but pathways the visitor or people newly moved to the town may not know about and want to explore if they do. It is a guide to lead you to where you may want to go and explore, finding other pathways on your walk if you choose. I hint and you can lead your own way. After all Glastonbury, UK, is a unique and magical place to be, unusual and colourful.
This is a book created to guide the reader on walks through and around the town of Glastonbury with suggested places to visit in the surrounding area. With guided routes for example to the Chalice Well, the White Spring and Glastonbury Tor taking in the beautiful countryside views around the town while doing so.
All the walks start from the top of Glastonbury High Street or by the Town Hall (next to Glastonbury Abbey and Glastonbury Information Centre). The walks take in the features of the town centre at the beginning and end of the walks for example Glastonbury Abbey, The George and Pilgrims Inn, the Magdalene Chapel.
Included are walks to Gog and Magog, Wearyall Hill, Brides Mound, the Willow Walk, the Avalon Marshes and the Sweet Track.
Also included are suggested walks in the wider area around Glastonbury where views of Glastonbury Tor can be seen. Combe Hill Woods, Walton Hill, Ebbor Gorge, Deer Leap, Brent Knoll, Brean Down and the beautiful Somerset Levels, all within a travel distance of Glastonbury.
The book features easy to follow routes plus small full colour photographs included to help guide you on the way.
The time taken on the walks can be as long or as short as you want to make them, there are plenty of suggested places to sit and view as well as walk. The walks can be lengthened or shortened if you have access to a car, making the walks suitable for your own plans and giving you the opportunity to discover the beauty of Glastonbury Town and parts of the surrounding area of Somerset.
This is an ideal book to plan your walks, as a gift for someone, or for those who are not able to visit Glastonbury, Somerset, England but want a feel of the town and land.
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Walking Around Glastonbury Tor
Exploring and visiting Glastonbury Tor?
This book will help you explore the lanes and pathways immediately around and on Glastonbury Tor. It is meant as a guide for those who are short on time and want to explore the area around Glastonbury Tor. Giving you a flavour of the area, a feel of the place whatever the weather or season. There are some beautiful short walks in this smaller area around Glastonbury Tor, not only on Glastonbury Tor itself but also on the lanes immediately surrounding it. Included are some walks that can be done on the lanes rather than footpaths, making it easier if you wish to go that way and they can be less muddy after rainfall.
It's not a conventional walking book, the distance isn’t given in miles, there are other books and information online with route guides in miles with maps, this book guides through written walk detail descriptions and small full colour photographs. This is a guide to lead you to where you may want to go and explore, also giving you the chance to find other pathways on your walk if you choose. It's more an opening and introduction to explore and sense this magical Isle and place.
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Walking Around Glastonbury Tor from the Old Oaks Touring Site
The intention of this book is to help you explore the lanes and pathways immediately around and on Glastonbury Tor and into Glastonbury town from the Old Oaks site and also guide you to the Chalice Well, White Spring, Rural Life Museum, Magdalene Chapel and Glastonbury Abbey.
This book concentrates on the area of the Tor itself and the lanes immediately surrounding it and leading into Glastonbury Town. It has been created specifically for walks from the Old Oaks Touring Site to make it easier for you to find your way around and enjoy the beautiful area on your visit.
I have given approximate mile guides but please note these are a guide only and not exact mileage. It will, I hope, give you a flavour of the area, a feel of the place whatever the weather or season, this book guides through written walk detail descriptions and small full colour photographs.
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Experiencing The Coleridge Way
This book is the author’s experience of walking the 51 mile route of the Coleridge Way in Somerset and Devon, England. Each person who walks the route will have a different experiences and different abilities and connect with the walk in different ways. So with limitations and challenges how do you walk the Coleridge Way? Rather than walking the Coleridge Way from start to finish the route ways are broken up into loop walks and small sections at a time.
With the feelings of stepping not only along footpaths off the 'beaten track' but also stepping into other realms and connecting with views Samuel Taylor Coleridge would have seen, walking and following in footsteps of imagination and inspiration.
Featuring full colour photographs and brief facts, the world of the Coleridge Way is brought to you through the author’s feelings and experiences. This book not only covers places on the Coleridge Way but some other walks and places nearby.
This is more an experience than a walk, it’s not just a walk, it’s a challenge on all levels, emotional, fitness, extremes of weather, yes, even in the English summertime the weather can be challenging and change instantly. Reaching and going beyond personal limits. The Coleridge Way is inspiring, amazing and has the feeling of being ‘on the edge of all.’
From marshland to moorland, coast and sea, rivers and woodlands, green enchanted tunnels and views stretching for miles, hidden villages and places out of time, green trees and fields, this isn’t just a walk, it’s an experience, a way of stepping between worlds, of enchantment and boundaries, edges of land and time.
What this book isn’t:
This book isn’t a walking route guide with footpath routes and distance in miles. There is other information out there either online or in books with those details.
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Glastonbury, The Isle of Avalon, The Place and People.
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This is not a walking book but a book showing Glastonbury the town. 'Capturing a moment in time', over the summer of 2015. This book is a record of how things were. Even now just a few years later the town has changed slightly, shops moved or closed and new ones appearing.
This book contains full colour photographs and features people who live/lived or work/worked in the town of Glastonbury/The Isle of Avalon and their experiences through words of living in this diverse place.
Also featured are full colour day-to-day scenes of the town of Glastonbury.
Lockdown on the Levels
Experiences of daily visits through part of the season on the Avalon Marshes during lockdowns and travel restrictions in 2019/2020, giving a glimpse into Lockdown on the Levels.
The Avalon Marshes, Ham Wall is located near Glastonbury in Somerset, England, and the area is a nature reserve for wildlife.
During lockdowns and travel restrictions and times that are not 'normal' and staying local the opportunity arose to visit every day for part of the season.
Watching the famous starling murmuration, ducks and swans and more, with the challenges of people and cyclists, this book gives a glimpse into this area of land during this time.