Glastonbury Tor rises 158 metres above the flat Somerset Levels and is visible for miles in every direction. On a clear day from the top you can see the Bristol Channel, the Mendip Hills, Bridgwater Bay, and on rare occasions the Welsh coast. The slopes are terraced into seven concentric levels — natural ridges that mystics interpret as a three-dimensional labyrinth, geologists as ploughed strip-fields.
The path up from the town takes around 20 minutes if you are fit, longer in wet weather when the steep grass is slippery. The summit is windy and exposed; the roofless St Michael's Tower is the only shelter. Sunset is the photographer's hour, sunrise is the pilgrim's. Both can be transcendent. Free, open at all hours.