Glastonbury 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. During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys and low-lying ground surrounding Glastonbury so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints. The Neolithic people continued to exploit the reedswamps for their natural resources and
Trowbridge Village Pump Festival Trowbridge Village Pump Festival The Village Pump Festival is a folk music festival that takes place near Trowbridge. It has its roots years ago in a barn at the Lamb Inn Trowbridge, it then moved to Stowford Manor Farm, Farleigh Hungerford, England. The music covers a variety of genres from folk and roots to blues, celtic and Ceilidh with a variety of other entertainment including a family field, with puppetry and story telling. The event arose from the folk club of the same name founded in Trowbridge in 1970 and the annual festival held there until 1984, when it moved