Pilgrimage up the Tor

Glastonbury Tor is the high hill that can be seen for miles around, standing the middle of what in my childhood we called the Moors, but are now known as part of the Somerset Levels - flat land just above sea level, once marsh but drained centuries ago. Glastonbury Abbey, below the Tor, was one of the richest abbeys of mediaeval England, and one of the last to be dissolved by Henry VIII's men. On 15 November 1539 the last Abbot, Richard Whiting, by then a frail old man, and two younger monks, accused falsely of treason, were dragged to the top of the Tor and executed by being hung, drawn, and quartered at the foot of the church tower there.
This year, I joined a small group from my husband's Catholic parish, to climb up and commemorate them.