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We Offer You:
Immaculate Accomodation
Double Rooms
Family Suite
Our Location (Google Map)
Local Attractions >>
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From our Guestbook:
" Nothing too much trouble and best nights sleep! "
Karen and Alan Bennett
Co. Antrim
" Thank you so much for your wonderful cheer and hospitality, we loved staying with you. "
Kaitlin, Kirsten and Torbin
USA
" Jake and Julie are beautiful people. Will definately return to lap up the countryside. Home cooked breakfast,
freshly squeezed orange juice and fabulous atmosphere!!
Great. "
Trev and Sarah Fennel
Kent
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Double En Suite Room
From £55 per night
Please email or call to confirm availablility
Tel: 01761 470291
Mob: 07966 267147
Email: julie@breconridgebandb.com |
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Local Attractions
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30 minutes from Camerton you will find the remains of the 14th-century St Michael's Chapel, the tower stands like a lone sentinel
on the top of Glastonbury Tor, yet people travel from all over the world to make private pilgrimages to this legendary spot where
King Arthur is said to have come to die.
In Arthurian legend, the King was mortally wounded by his nephew Modred at the Battle of Camlann and carried by weeping maidens
on a barge to the Isle of Avalon. What happened after that is not recorded, but many people believe that Glastonbury Tor is the
Isle of Avalon.
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During the Dark Ages, when Arthur lived, most of Somerset was marshland and sheets of water cut off the Tor during floods and very
high tides. In fact, the pagan Celts called it ‘Ynys-witrin’ – ‘the Island of Glass’, and regarded it as a sacred site, as they did
all islands.
It is easy to imagine a wounded King landing on Glastonbury Tor, and this belief was bolstered in the 12th-century when the monks
of St Michael’s Chapel discovered the bones of a tall man and a woman with yellow hair. It was claimed that a lead cross was also
found in the grave, inscribed 'Here in the Isle of Avalon the famous King Arthur lies buried.'
Of course, it might have been a genuine find, but scholars agree that it comes from a later time than Arthur's although it was
apparently too old to be a 12th-century fake.
Sir Thomas Malory, who was one of the many medieval writers to be fascinated by the story of King Arthur wrote his own romantic
version that had a different inscription for Arthur's grave. According to him, it reads 'Here lies Arthur, the Once and Future King' -
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| Bath - Longleat - Wookey Hole - Cheddar Caves - Bristol - Glastonbury Tor - Wells - Stonehenge |
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