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	Glastonbury swan and Cygnus: Key to 2012
		Brigid's worship in Glastonbury was crystallized as early as the fifth century by incoming Irish settlers with the foundation of a St Bride's spring, close to a St Bride's chapel, once located on an elevated plateau known as the Beckery, or Bride's Mound.
		Glastonbury's terrestrial swan effigy, whether purely a work of nature or sculpted by ancient hands, might easily have been seen as an expression of a pagan goddess, possibly a form of Brigid, venerated hereabouts prior to the receding of the Bristol Channel to its current position over 14 miles away some 2,000 years ago.
		Glastonbury artist and writer Yuri Leitch has investigated the presence of the cult of Brigid around the Bristol Channel and notes that its river, the mighty Severn, was sacred to a water goddess named Sabrina.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/articles/Glastonbury_swan_cygnus_2012.htm (4844 words)

	Glastonbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry spot on the Somerset Levels, 30 miles south of Bristol.
		The Joseph of Arimathea legend relates to the idea that Glastonbury was the birthplace of Christianity in the British Isles, and that the first British church was built there at Joseph's behest to house the Holy Grail, 30 or so years after the death of Jesus.
		Glastonbury and Street was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glastonbury (1050 words)

	Canals of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.
		Following the success of the Bridgewater Canal (the first modern artificial canal in Britain), other canals were quickly constructed between industrial centres, cities and ports, and were soon transporting vast amounts of raw materials (esp coal and lumber) and manufactured goods.
		Midford Aqueduct at Midford on the Somerset Coal Canal
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canals_of_the_United_Kingdom (1712 words)

	Glastonbury Canal - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The canal gained it Act of Parliament in 1827 and opened in 1833 one of the key promoters was Richard Prat the town clerk ofGlastonbury.
		By 1840 it was clear that the canal was a financial disaster.
		With an exception of a short stretch atHighbridge the canal was abandoned in 1854 the same year that a railway following the sameroot was opened.
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /default.asp?t=Glastonbury_Canal (99 words)

	Grand Weston Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Apart from lime the main canal trade turned out to be coal from Taunton but it had to be brought by road for the first 11 miles to Holcombe Rogus from where it travelled on the canal into Tiverton.
		At Norton Fitzwarren the bed of the canal could still easily be seen by crossing the footbridge at the (former) railway station and walking south a short distance across a field.
		The canal basin and terminus of the Tiverton Branch is on the south east side of the town close to the junction of the two minor roads coming in from Butterleigh and Manley.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/grandweston.htm (3946 words)

	Hypoplasia of the Bony Canal for the Cochlear Nerve in Patients with Congenital Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Initial ...
		The length of the bony canal for the cochlear nerve was determined by drawing a perpendicular line from the base of the modiolus (arrow) to the inner margin of the fundus of the internal acoustic meatus (line).
		The canal length, measured by drawing a perpendicular line from the base of the modiolus (open arrow) to the inner margin of the fundus of the internal acoustic meatus (line), is 1.0 mm.
		The canal length, measured by drawing a perpendicular line from the base of the modiolus (open arrow) to the inner margin of the fundus of the internal acoustic meatus (line), is 0.8 mm.
	radiology.rsnajnls.org /cgi/content/full/215/1/243 (2641 words)

	History by Waterway from Glenkens Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He suggested two routes for the canal one, along the River Brue, was rejected but the other, which incuded making existing drains navigable, was close to the route adopted by the promoters.
		He produced a report recommending a 32 mile canal from Tradeston to a new harbour to be built at Eglinton on Ardrossen Bay with a branch to Salcoats.
		He was commissioned to survey and estimate a canal from the Don to Cinder Bridge (Greasbrough Ings) on the road from Greasbrough to Rawmarsh or to the nearby Sough bridge.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History11.html (2708 words)

	A History of Glastonbury
		Glastonbury probably started as a small settlement and it grew into a town only after the abbey was founded during the 7th century (the exact date is not known).
		The population of Glastonbury in the Middle Ages is not known but it was probably around 800 to 1,000.
		Glastonbury Abbey was sacked then it was 'cannibalised' by people who took stone from it for building.
	www.localhistories.org /glastonbury.html (1549 words)

	www.glastonbury.gov.uk - Glastonbury Town Council
		Glastonbury dates back more than 4,000 years, and the historical background of the town is interwoven with worldfamous legends and folklore.
		It is these legends for which Glastonbury is best known, and perhaps the most enduring is that which identifies the area as Avalon, the fabled isle said to be the resting place of King Arthur.
		A canal and a railway were opened, and although the leather and sheepskin trade eventually went into decline, the town had by this time grown in other lucrative directions, thanks to improved farming techniques.
	www.glastonbury.gov.uk /g_gov/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=34&page_id=5&PHPSESSID=6af6f31d6c47179351f3c9c1d68fc52b (569 words)

	Ashcott \| British History Online
		Glastonbury abbey had a second estate in Ashcott held by Almar in 1066 and by Roger de Courcelles in 1086.
		Pedwell was held by Algar in 1066 and by Walter of Douai under Glastonbury abbey in 1086.
		In 1189 tithes of freeholders were payable to the sacrist of Glastonbury abbey (fn.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=15103 (8010 words)

	www.glastonbury.gov.uk - Glastonbury Town Council
		Glastonbury Abbey was the largest landowner in Somerset with one of Europe's major church buildings until it was demolished soon after 1537.
		The land it farmed was the precinct of the derelict abbey.
		It was first to be re-built after a disastrous fire in 1184 that destroyed the abbey that was venerated as the earliest in the land and the burial place of the first kings of all England.
	www.glastonbury.gov.uk /g_gov/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=3401&page_id=54 (2582 words)

	Glastonbury Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Glastonbury Canal ran just over 14 miles through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel.
		The canal gained it Act of Parliament in 1827 and opened in 1834
		With an exception of a short stretch at Highbridge the canal was abandoned in 1854 the same year that a railway following the same route was opened.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glastonbury_Canal (145 words)

	Archival Services, The University of Akron
		The Hocking Canal, Workhorse of the Hocking Valley, Annie Hutchison.
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		The Ohio and Erie Canal, The Zoar Sidecut and Feeder
	www3.uakron.edu /ul/archives/findingaids/canalsocietyofohio.html (6592 words)

	Waterways Engineers and Surveyors from Abernethy, James
		Made a report to the canal committee on the use of iron rails to replace the tram plates in use on their various tramroads.
		Proposed the Leeds Extension Canal from Leeds to Armley mills.
		Together with Thomas Bolton he made a survey for a line and suggested a short canal with improvements to the river navigations or a longer canal that was not dependent on river improvements.
	www.jim-shead.com /waterways/Engineers1.html (2493 words)

	Canal Narrowboats
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		Ellesmere Canal - The Ellesmere Canal was a canal in England and Wales planned to link the River Mersey with the River Severn, but the Ellesmere Canal as originally envisaged was very different from what was eventually constructed.
		Panama Canal Authority - The Panama Canal Authority (Spanish: Autoridad del Canal de PanamÃ¡, or ACP) is the agency of the government of Panama responsible for the operation and management of the Panama Canal.
	bo46.mndine.com /canalnarrowboats.html (861 words)

	General Warde's (Yspitty) Canal
		Saul Canal Festival : Saul Canal Festival is the new title for what was once known as the Saul Junction Boat Gathering.
		The Glastonbury Canal by A H Body & Roy Gallop, ISBN 0 946217 08 4 :48 pages, Published by Fiducia Press 2001 A short history of this canal which opened in 1833 and closed about 30 years later.
		Was an 11 mile level canal from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, to Port Eglinton on the upper Clyde.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/General-Wardes-Yspitty-Canal.html (1331 words)

	Ancient Landscape around Glastonbury Tor
		Apart from Glastonbury Tor, the scale of ancient remains in the area is not great - we have no stone circles closer than Stanton Drew near Bristol, and no significant standing stones.
		This is because the large flooded area west of Glastonbury has gradually been drained, both by natural means (rising of land levels relative to the sea) and man-made means (drainage in the Glastonbury vicinity carried out by medieval monks and then across the whole Somerset Levels by Dutch engineers in the 1600s-1800s).
		The monks of Glastonbury Abbey oversaw the cutting of a canal west from Glastonbury, which became the re-routed River Brue, helped drain the area.
	www.glastonburytor.org.uk /tor-leymap.html (759 words)

	Glastonbury TIC
		One age old belief identifies Glastonbury as the fabled Isle of Avalon - in Celtic mythology, the Island of the Blessed Souls, and accordingly the resting place of the hero-king, Arthur.
		In the twelfth century this tradition was reinforced when monks at Glastonbury Abbey discovered bones from a Dark Age burial, reputedly alongside a cross bearing the inscription: "Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur with Guinevere his second wife in the Isle of Avalon".
		Only a mile or so to the south of Glastonbury is Street, known as the home of a world famous shoe industry founded there in the last century by a local Quaker family, the Clarks.
	www.glastonburytic.co.uk /glasarea.htm (1899 words)

	HTML Translation of SGML/EAD Document by Tim Green
		Canals of the East Midlands Waterways to Stratford
		Newcastle and Lyme Canal and Junction Canal -
		Canals of the East Midlands Waterways to Stratford 0000-0000
	library-2.lse.ac.uk /archives/handlists/Hadfield/m.html (392 words)

	ConnDOT: Chapter 1 DOT History
		Five canals in addition to the Windsor Locks canal were chartered by the state.
		Begun in 1822, the canal was not completed until 1835, and it was constantly plagued by poor water supply, damage to the canal banks, and lack of operating capital.
		By 1847, the canal was closed and railroad tracks were proposed to be laid in its towpath.
	www.ct.gov /dot/cwp/view.asp?a=1380&Q=259692&dotPNavCtr=\|40015 (4108 words)

	GENUKI: The National Gazetteer (1868) - Somerset
		The Kennet and Avon canal connects the Avon at Bath with the Thames, following the course of the former river to the borders of Wiltshire, where it crosses it through the Dundas aqueduct, and passes through the counties of Dorset, Wilts, and Berks to the Kennet.
		The Glastonbury canal follows the course of the river Brue from Glastonbury to Bridgwater Bay.
		The stock of sheep is estimated at 500,000, generally of the Southdowns or Leicester breeds, or crosses of these with Cotswold sheep, and fed upon the hilly districts and rich pastures in the centre of the county.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/SOM/Gaz1868.html (2783 words)

	Entire Family - pafg26 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Isaac Talcott was born Aug 29 1740 in Glastonbury, Connecticutt.
		Rebecca House [Parents] was born Jan 12 1786 in Glastonbury, Connecticutt.
		Ephriam Easton was born Feb 6 1769 in Glastonbury, Connecticutt.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/sat/426/ged/entire1/pafg26.htm (609 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Cholesteatoma of the external ear canal: etiological factors, symptoms and clinical ...
		External ear canal cholesteatoma (EECC) is a rare condition with an estimated incidence of 1.2 per 1,000 new otological patients[1].
		EECC presents itself by an accumulation of epithelial debris in the ear canal, and early reports on such manifestations have been made in 1850 by Toynbee [2] and later in 1893 by Scholefield [3].
		In two cases inflammation of the ear canal was related to previous recurrent otorrhea due to chronic otitis media with an eardrum perforation.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1472-6815/6/16 (5668 words)

	The Somerset Levels
		Glastonbury Tor which is on the eastern edge of the Levels is a world-known landmark rising over 500 feet (almost 160 metres) above the Levels.
		Glastonbury, famous for it's abbey and religious significance as well as the links with King Arthur, is the ancient 'Isle of Avalon'.
		Glastonbury had two railway stations, one by Northload Street and one at the lower end on Benedict Street by Snows Saw Mills (this one used to get flooded regularly).
	members.aol.com /gtuttiett/levels.htm (1008 words)

	Chilton Polden \| British History Online
		The Glastonbury canal was constructed through the northern part of the parish.
		Chilton was recorded with Glastonbury abbey's Shapwick estate and in 1086 was held by Roger de Courcelles.
		Glastonbury abbey claimed to take strays in the tithing of Chilton as part of its lordship of Shapwick, disputing the claims of Richard of Chilton as lord in 1265-6.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=15105 (4392 words)

	Chalice Well Monograph
		But now my five friends and I were in Glastonbury, England in July of 1996, where the signs reading "closed for dinner" were not just for sale in antique stores.
		Up until the 1,700’s the town was an island of sorts, with lakes, streams, and marshes surrounding the three narrow hills that comprise the town.
		They are long Wearyall hill, tall Glastonbury Tor and between them round Chalice hill, named for the legend that the Arthurian Holy Grail is residing at the bottom of the well.
	members.cruzio.com /~vesica/chalicewell.html (3073 words)

	Taunton to Street - Walking Land's End to John o'Groats with Mark Moxon
		One thing struck me immediately; whereas Tiverton is a relatively small place and people are friendly when you pass them in the street, Taunton is a pretty hefty city, and for the first time since leaving Land's End I came across the city dwellers' code of etiquette.
		Luckily, given yesterday's canal theme, the route only follows the Bridgwater and Taunton for about four miles, opting instead to switch to the River Tone, the river that runs through Taunton.
		Street is effectively Glastonbury's twin town – one day they will no doubt merge into one glutinous mass – and Glastonbury is of course famous for ley lines, druids, Arthurian legends and hippies.
	www.landsendjohnogroats.info /southwest_england/13_street.html (1379 words)

	Way-Out-West Backpacking
		Glastonbury Backpackers is situated in the historic Crown Hotel, a 16th-century coaching inn set in the heart of Glastonbury.
		With easy access to all the local attractions and the surrounding countryside According to Arthurian legend, Glastonbury, or the Isle of Avalon as it was formerly known, is the burial place of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
		The ancient town of Glastonbury is shrouded in legend and myth.
	www.bristolbackpackers.co.uk /wowbackpacking (2288 words)

	OMH Places of Interest
		Slow moving barges are a delight to behold with their mixture of bright colours, and bargees young and old, all with the same passion for canal life.
		Undisturbed flora and fauna are another rare feature of canal life which is very appealing, and of course, the PUBS along the way are a definate bonus.
		Glastonbury Tor in adjacent Somerset, is to some, the center of Avalon, and the leylines linking the country's mystical past sites.
	www.oldmanorhotel.com /OTHERS/poe.html (607 words)

	Holly Cottage - Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For children there are safe paddling in the stream, playing "Pooh Sticks" from the bridge and a superb adventure playground in Bath.
		The river Avon offers boat trips and the Kennet and Avon Canal is easy for level walking or cycling through varied countryside.
		To the south are Wells (fine cathedral town) - 30 minutes drive; Glastonbury (medieval abbey and Tor) - 45 mins.; Mendips and Cheddar (gorge and famous caves) - 30 mins.; Quantock Hills and Exmoor - 60 mins.; Devon Coast - 60 mins.
	www.glastonbury.co.uk /accom/hollycottage/activities.htm (284 words)

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