Satellite pic.

[Toilet Duck]

11 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

In 2008 i went down on the wednesday with some mates, parked up in purple miles away from gate C as per normal, pitched up the tent etc and got everything sorted - then my girlfriend at the time drove down on the thursday, and she wasnt great at directions so she got lost on the a303 somehow and she ended up in the hospitality parking about a hundred yards outside of gate A, in that very spot you've marked 😄 dunno how, she had a normal parking pass, but i presume the dudes on the gate thought she looked like she might kill someone if she wasnt parked as close as possible . . . it made the monday morning an absolute breeze tbf 

Getting lost and arriving late are the two biggest determinants in getting the jammiest parking spots! Was at a different festival last year (local), had to delay going down to go to a removal so didn't get there til very late, and ended up stupidly following my satnav down a bunch of country lanes in the back arse of nowhere in Waterford. Finally parked up (after avoiding a collection of tractors hammering the opposite way down these various country lanes) and saw a sign about 20 feet away...Figured I'd take a picture of it so I could find my car on the Monday morning. That's when I realised it said "Main Entrance!". 😁

[Pipine]

Look how empty wicket is! I really hope they give some of that back to general camping this year.. 

Edited April 23 by Pipine

[Toilet Duck]

23 minutes ago, Pipine said:

Look how empty wicket is! I really hope they give some of that back to general camping this year.. 

Ah, that explains lots. We always camp in Lime Kiln, but I missed out last year and my mates said it was rammed by lunch on Wednesday, whereas normally there’s plenty of room til much later…but at the previous few festivals, some of the field below the road and down into wicket was outside the family camping fence. Looks like they pushed it back up to the road last year. I too hope they move the fence back down a bit this year! 

[mazola]

25 minutes ago, Pipine said:

Look how empty wicket is! I really hope they give some of that back to general camping this year.. 

 

Was just about to say the same. Absolute waste of space. Thought we had found our new permanent home in 2022 just about halfway up the path to the right of Wickett. The field never filled up even before they expanded it, so no idea why they felt they had to.

[Metal Monkey]

Maybe it fills up later. If I was going to bring my kids I’d want to listen to a few days less of them complaining everything is too far away! Plus it’s less time off school to get in trouble for. 

[Gnomicide]

This was brought up elsewhere, apparently it does fill up later on Thursday and into Friday.

[august1]

that website with the high def a few years did it never reappear? never got a chance to find my tent 😂

[Gnomicide]

Trying to remember GlastoMap. Was that a photo during the festival or out of season? I remember there festival made them take it down.

[incident]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Trying to remember GlastoMap. Was that a photo during the festival or out of season? I remember there festival made them take it down.

 

Very much during the festival, and far higher res than this.

[czuk]

I've just been having a nose around the 2023 image.  I was actually having a thought experiment on best route to use if I was going to attempt to go over the wall and I noticed the group of structures in the woods up by Strummerville/Worthy View off Cockmill Lane.  Google maps calls them Kings Hill Housing Complex.  Looks like some sort of commune, anyone know any more about it?

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

1 minute ago, czuk said:

I've just been having a nose around the 2023 image.  I was actually having a thought experiment on best route to use if I was going to attempt to go over the wall and I noticed the group of structures in the woods up by Strummerville/Worthy View off Cockmill Lane.  Google maps calls them Kings Hill Housing Complex.  Looks like some sort of commune, anyone know any more about it?

 

I was literally doing the same.  Daydreaming about where I would stop to have a twix.

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, czuk said:

I've just been having a nose around the 2023 image.  I was actually having a thought experiment on best route to use if I was going to attempt to go over the wall and I noticed the group of structures in the woods up by Strummerville/Worthy View off Cockmill Lane.  Google maps calls them Kings Hill Housing Complex.  Looks like some sort of commune, anyone know any more about it?

@Sawdusty surfer Any idea ? 

[Looother]

3 hours ago, czuk said:

I've just been having a nose around the 2023 image.  I was actually having a thought experiment on best route to use if I was going to attempt to go over the wall and I noticed the group of structures in the woods up by Strummerville/Worthy View off Cockmill Lane.  Google maps calls them Kings Hill Housing Complex.  Looks like some sort of commune, anyone know any more about it?

 

Did some digging online. Well, you did ask.

 

There isn't much there that's very recent. An application for planning permission for "use of land for siting of up to 16 low impact residential shelters within a woodland garden setting and associated operational development comprising car park, telephone box, and children's play structure" was rejected in 1999 - though apparently there was a "legal breakthrough" in 2001. This is from 1995:

 

Clearly it's still in use. A resident called Theo Simon stood for election to the local council (for the Green Party) in 2017. His band, Seize the Day, seems to play Glastonbury every year (at Toad Hall, Small World, sometimes other sets elsewhere). This is a video of their 2019 set:

 

 

There's an interview with him, probably filmed at Kings Hill, here. He sounds pretty cool if you ask me.

 

https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/why-religion-matters/0/steps/73899

 

This is from a university thesis submitted in 1999:

 

The King’s Hill Collective

The King’s Hill Collective can be seen as solution to increasing pressures of living on the road for Travellers who were bringing up children and as a solution to (and rejection of) mainstream consumerist society by non Travellers many of whom were originally city dwellers. Nevertheless because many of the members had direct travelling experience, this community provided an example of one extreme in a continuum between those Travellers for whom the tag ‘New Age’ is a complete irrelevance and those for whom it is at least understandable if not desirable. This group is on the ‘New Age’, ecologically aware, ideologically ‘hippie’ and ‘sorted’ end of the New Age Traveller continuum discussed in the previous chapter. The site, which overlooks Pilton farm (the site of the Glastonbury Festival), is slowly maturing now with numerous trees, vegetables and a fully functioning water bore hole which supplies the site with drinking water. Water is extracted on a weekly basis using an old petrol engine and pump. The water, which is filtered by a series of sand traps, is inspected on an annual basis. The collective is concerned to demonstrate its willingness to 243adhere to regulations were this is possible and not contrary to its collective ideology. There are 16 plots, each at some stage of the development of the site, having a bender.

 

The benders are almost exclusively constructed of light green Tarpaulin over a hazel wood matrix. Stainless steel flexi-vents lead from stoves in the benders. These act as chimneys supported by a single branch driven into the earth. The stoves are usually home-made conversions of gas cylinders which have been cut and welded into shape although there was an solid fuel Rayburn installed in one bender during the study period. Inside the benders bedding is arranged on wooden pallets or platforms and there is often an additional gas stove for cooking. Water is supplied either directly from the holding tank or stored in water barrels. Lighting is almost exclusively by candles or ‘hurricane lamps’. Twelve volt batteries and in one case a wind generator supplies electricity for radios and in one case a small black and white television. Some of the more established benders had a variety of trees and shrubs around the canvass construction including apple, pear and fig trees as well as a variety of fruits.

 

The collective is serviced by a pay telephone located in an old red telephone box. Its position, in the middle of a field, is as incongruous as the lamp post in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books and is in a way reminiscent of the TARDIS of Doctor Who, adding to the slightly surreal or magical atmosphere of the place. Inside a small domestic pay phone is installed and managed by one of the community.

 

At the centre of the site is a clearing of grass that acts as a communal area surrounded by a small circular mound inside of which runs a circular ditch in the fashion of a place of worship. In the centre of the circle is a small collection of sea stones collected from a nearby shoreline. There are four gaps in the mound representing the solstices and equinoxes, which correspond to the cardinal points of the compass. Each section of the mound was constructed during the period of the year that it represents. There are symbols representing Beltane and other significant calendar dates placed appropriately on the circle. The King’s Hill site owes its existence to Chris Black, a man who was broadly sympathetic to alternative lifestyles and provided initial financial support to the project. Chris Black purchased the field and ‘loaned’ sixteen plots to a number of Travellers and bender dwellers. The newly formed community developed a ‘constitution’ and organised a system whereby the loan of the plots was paid back over a period of two years through weekly contributions to a central fund. Thus after two years the land belonged to sixteen stakeholders.

[czuk]

Nice one @Looother  some good sleuthing there.  I agree with you, Theo Simon looks and sounds cool as. The thesis link didn't work for me but https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/13219/1/Hester1999PhD.pdf does if anyone else wants a read.  Interesting stuff.

Edited April 24 by czuk
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[Toilet Duck]

17 hours ago, Toilet Duck said:

Ah, that explains lots. We always camp in Lime Kiln, but I missed out last year and my mates said it was rammed by lunch on Wednesday, whereas normally there’s plenty of room til much later…but at the previous few festivals, some of the field below the road and down into wicket was outside the family camping fence. Looks like they pushed it back up to the road last year. I too hope they move the fence back down a bit this year! 

ah, it appears some of wicket was also allocated as accessible camping in 2023, so would expect that to remain the same and fair enough tbh. 

[StoneCircle]

On 4/23/2024 at 2:23 PM, Glastopedia said:

Thanks for the share! And yeah, was just thinking about adding additional info like you suggested. Plenty of things to think about!

This is a fab map, thanks so much! I can see our pitch in E21! What day and time was in taken? 😊

[StoneCircle]

3 hours ago, Toilet Duck said:

ah, it appears some of wicket was also allocated as accessible camping in 2023, so would expect that to remain the same and fair enough tbh. 

The Accessible Campervans/Caravan site was moved into the right hand side of wicket. Its opposite Spring Ground Accessible Campsite which is just for tents now. It enables both Accessible fields to share the facilities. 

 

Edited April 24 by StoneCircle

[Avalon_Fields]

37 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

This is a fab map, thanks so much! I can see our pitch in E21! What day and time was in taken? 😊

Almost certainly Thursday afternoon 2023 

[Toilet Duck]

5 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

The Accessible Campervans/Caravan site was moved into the right hand side of wicket. Its opposite Spring Ground Accessible Campsite which is just for tents now. It enables both Accessible fields to share the facilities. 

 

Ah, thanks! It’s an area that seems to keep on changing! 

[StoneCircle]

1 minute ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Almost certainly Thursday afternoon 2023 

It doesn't look busy enough in West Holts to be Thursday afternoon. It's packed near the Brothers Bar and it's where #Twisto meet up at 2pm, it was busier than that as I recall.

[Skelts]

13 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

Trying to remember GlastoMap. Was that a photo during the festival or out of season? I remember there festival made them take it down.

 

13 hours ago, incident said:

 

Very much during the festival, and far higher res than this.

I have a link to a cached/archived version of it. It’s clunky but does work. Taken during the 2015 festival as I can clearly see my tent in Michael’s Mead. 
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160622093734/https:/glastomap.com/

[Leyrulion]

3 hours ago, StoneCircle said:

It doesn't look busy enough in West Holts to be Thursday afternoon. It's packed near the Brothers Bar and it's where #Twisto meet up at 2pm, it was busier than that as I recall.

It's a satellite image from a pass that started at 12:50 Thursday.

[Gnomicide]

49 minutes ago, Skelts said:

 

I have a link to a cached/archived version of it. It’s clunky but does work. Taken during the 2015 festival as I can clearly see my tent in Michael’s Mead. 
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160622093734/https:/glastomap.com/

 

Excellent! Thanks for that.

[Glastopedia]

12 hours ago, Skelts said:

 

I have a link to a cached/archived version of it. It’s clunky but does work. Taken during the 2015 festival as I can clearly see my tent in Michael’s Mead. 
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160622093734/https:/glastomap.com/

This is awesome.

[Fingerbobs]

12 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

It's a satellite image from a pass that started at 12:50 Thursday.

I parked up at 3:15pm on the Thursday and my car parking field out west wasn't in use at the time of this photo so this sounds spot on.