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How big is Glastonbury?

Always good to have little map 'experiments' / projects like this appearing. Glastonbury's gates opened yesterday.

Glastonbury is big. Fifteen years ago today, I was there... in the heat, working with the Geography Collective in the Greek Kids Zone. I've blogged about it before - search the blog for 'Glastonbury'.

This map shows you how big, although from my experience it felt quite a lot larger than it is shown here. I think there are other areas still beyond what is shown here - whether car parking or additional camping and the security zone.

It's made by Geoffrey Prytherch.

Here's Ely compared to the site.

And here's one of my images from up near the letters... at night, it looks pretty awesome too. This was sunset on the 24th of June.


Image: Alan Parkinson - shared on Flickr under CC license

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