Schools workshops at Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury
At Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury Key Stage 1 & 2 pupils gain an authentic insight into Victorian life. The 'Victorian House and Home' workshop is 90 minutes long and suitable for up to 35 pupils.
Cider making at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury
Pressing the apples
2 - Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury - Firing the Anvil 2011
Firing the Anvil demonstration at the Somerset Rural Life Museum on 25th October 2011.
Demonstrator Mike and his wife have been giving this demonstration for many years..... and this one was NOT the loudest bang to date! (See video 1 for that.)
Following info from the Somerset County Council page for the Museum:
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is based in Glastonbury. In the Abbey Farmhouse the social and domestic life of Victorian Somerset is described in reconstructed rooms and there is a lively events programme as well as regular temporary exhibitions. There is also a tea room and museum shop.
The magnificent fourteenth-century Abbey Barn is the centrepiece of the Museum.
The barn and the farm buildings surrounding the courtyard contain displays showing the tools and techniques of farming in Victorian Somerset.
Local activities like willow growing, mud horse fishing, peat digging and cider making are included.
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Museum diary of events -
Cider making at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury
Mashing the apples
Cider making at the Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury.
Preparing the cheese!
3 - Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury - Firing the Anvil 2011
Firing the Anvil demonstration at the Somerset Rural Life Museum on 25th October 2011. Demonstrator Mike telling the history of Firing the Anvil and also the story of why people put a blacksmiths horseshoe on their doors.
Following info from the Somerset County Council page for the Museum:
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is based in Glastonbury. In the Abbey Farmhouse the social and domestic life of Victorian Somerset is described in reconstructed rooms and there is a lively events programme as well as regular temporary exhibitions. There is also a tea room and museum shop.
The magnificent fourteenth-century Abbey Barn is the centrepiece of the Museum.
The barn and the farm buildings surrounding the courtyard contain displays showing the tools and techniques of farming in Victorian Somerset.
Local activities like willow growing, mud horse fishing, peat digging and cider making are included.
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Museum diary of events -
#glastonbury #iselofavalon A walkabout in the beautiful Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury Somerset.
A walkabout in the beautiful Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury Somerset. England. The video and photos include a visit to the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey and images of the Tor, Chalice Well Gardens, Somerset Rural Life Museum, Magdalene Alms Houses and the White Spring. #glastonbury #glastonburytor #avalon #iselofavalon #somerset #chalicewell #glastonburyabbey #thewhitespring
Ray White Esk | Toogoolawah - Welcome to our beautiful Somerset Region!
There are not many places where you can throw a line in the water and still get to work by 8:30am. Ray White Rural Esk Principal Wayne Jaenke lives that reality. Ray White Rural Esk | Toogoolawah is a family owned and operated business with six generations of the Jaenke family; synonymous throughout the entire Somerset Region for honesty, commitment, longevity and persistence.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Glastonbury, United Kingdom UK
Glastonbury Travel Guide. MUST WATCH. Top things you have to do in Glastonbury . We have sorted Tourist Attractions in Glastonbury for You. Discover Glastonbury as per the Traveller Resources given by our Travel Specialists. You will not miss any fun thing to do in Glastonbury .
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List of Best Things to do in Glastonbury , United Kingdom (UK)
Glastonbury Tor
St. Margaret's Chapel & Magdalene Almshouses
Ham Wall Nature Reserve
Chalice Well
Glastonbury Abbey
White Spring Well & Temple
Glastonbury Goddess Temple
Glastonbury Festival
The Shoe Museum
Somerset Rural Life Museum
Somerset Rural Life Museum Apple Juice Making
Rural Somerset County
Driving outside of Somerset heading down to Ohiopyle State Park.
Rural Suffolk.
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Places to see in ( Glastonbury - UK )
Places to see in ( Glastonbury - UK )
Glastonbury is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, 23 miles south of Bristol. The town of Glastonbury is in the Mendip district. Glastonbury is less than 1 mile (2 km) across the River Brue from Street, which is now larger than Glastonbury.
Evidence from timber trackways such as the Sweet Track show that the town has been inhabited since Neolithic times. Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue and Sharpham Park approximately 2 miles (3 km) west of Glastonbury, that dates back to the Bronze Age. Centwine was the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury Abbey, which dominated the town for the next 700 years. One of the most important abbeys in England, it was the site of Edmund Ironside's coronation as King of England in 1016. Many of the oldest surviving buildings in the town, including the Tribunal, George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, which is based in an old tithe barn, are associated with the abbey. The Church of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century.
The town became a centre for commerce, which led to the construction of the market cross, Glastonbury Canal and the Glastonbury and Street railway station, the largest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a conservation project managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust and nearby is the Ham Wall National Nature Reserve.
Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community which attracts people with New Age and Neopagan beliefs, and is notable for myths and legends often related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur. Joseph is said to have arrived in Glastonbury and stuck his staff into the ground, when it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn. The presence of a landscape zodiac around the town has been suggested but no evidence has been discovered. The Glastonbury Festival, held in the nearby village of Pilton, takes its name from the town.
The Tribunal was a medieval merchant's house, used as the Abbey courthouse and, during the Monmouth Rebellion trials, by Judge Jeffreys. The octagonal Market Cross was built in 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey. The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn was built in the late 15th century to accommodate visitors to Glastonbury Abbey.
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is a museum of the social and agricultural history of Somerset, housed in buildings surrounding a 14th-century barn once belonging to Glastonbury Abbey. The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919.
Just a short distance from the Chalice Well site, across a road known as Well House Lane, can be found the White Spring, where a temple has been created in the 21st century. The building now used as the White Spring Temple was originally a Victorian-built well house, erected by the local water board in 1872.
The Glastonbury Canal ran just over 14 miles (23 km) through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel in the early 19th century. The nearest railway station is at Castle Cary but there is no direct bus route linking it to Glastonbury. There are convenient bus connections between Glastonbury and the railway stations at Bristol Temple Meads (over an hour travelling time) and at Taunton. The main road in the town is the A39 which passes through Glastonbury from Wells connecting the town with Street and the M5 motorway.
( Glastonbury - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Glastonbury . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Glastonbury - UK
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THE AVALON MARSHES - a changing landscape
Explore the fascinating story of the Avalon Marshes near Glastonbury and how this unique landscape has changed through time, shaping human experience over 6,000 years
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A Walk Around Glastonbury And The Somerset Levels
In this video Abbie experiments with a new walk. She begins in Glastonbury near the Rural Life Museum, then heads up to the famous Glastonbury Tor and St Michaels Tower. From there, her route takes her onto the flat lands of the Somerset Levels, alongside waterways, marshes and metal detectors. She sees herons, dippers, guillemots, egrets and more, gets slightly stuck on the wrong side of a water way, climbs countless fences, and loses a path. Thankfully she makes it back to town in one piece, and ends the walk exploring the quirky main high street and incredible remains of Glastonbury Abbey.
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Talk of the Land
A documentary produced by Somerset Film for Somerset Rural Life museum in Glastonbury
Visit Somerset discuss 'Glastonbury The Isle Of Light' at Glastonbury Abbey
Annie's Tea Garden, Godney near Glastonbury Somerset 2006
Memories of time spent in Annie's tea Garden, in the Somerset villge of Godney near Glastonbury. . .
Glastonbury Past and Present
This project gives the opportunity to see how this town had changed since the year of 1900 approximately.
The antique photographs was taken from the book Old Glastonbury, in photographs published by the friends of the Abbey Barn, Glastonbury, in 1981 and reprinted in 1989 © Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury.