Overhead view of Glastonbury High Street, drawn by Cheryl Lucas

The local community
in Glastonbury

Glastonbury's social makeup is unusual for a small provincial town - it's remarkably cosmopolitan, yet it's not a big city. It's a funny combination of a small Somerset town with parochial concerns and a nationally and globally significant pilgrimage place.

Glastonbury Suffragette Shop, 1920s

This mixed population and social diversity sometimes makes for local conflicts and sometimes it brings the town together in remarkable expressions of shared interest. Also, what once were regarded as problems can turn around to become benefits.

This section of the IsleofAvalon site is in continuous development. It features aspects of the social makeup and issues of Glastonbury and its surrounding villages. Click through the links on the left to find out more.