Desktop Background Images - Glastonbury Tor

Glastonbury Tor is an unusually shaped hill located just outside of the town of Glastonbury in southeast England. The tower on the top of the Tor is the remains of St. Michaels Church, constructed in the fifteenth century. It replaced an earlier church which was destroyed in an earthquake on September 11, 1275.

The images on this page are all photographs taken while on vacation in England during the summer of 2000. Click here to get to the top of this set of background image pages.

Some notes are probably in order:

1. Except as noted, none of the images are distorted (i.e. if your pixels are square then you're seeing the image in the correct aspect ratio).
2. These images are Copyright © 2000 Daniel Boulet. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to use these images in any context as long as the copyright notice on each image is intact and visible.
3. The 1280x1024 images aren't quite the same as the other sizes due to the obvious fact that 1280x1024 is a 5x4 aspect ratio whereas the others are 4x3.

If you use any of these images for commercial purposes or display them on your WWW site, please include a reference back to http://www.bouletfermat.com/backgrounds/.

Here's an 800x600 photo of Glastonbury Tor from a distance. The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

Here's a 800x600 clipping from the above photograph of Glastonbury Tor (this is the only size that this image is available in).

Here's a 1024x768 clipping from the same photograph of Glastonbury Tor (this is also the only size that this image is available in).

Here's an 800x600 photo of Glastonbury Tor from a different angle. From this angle, the small terraces that run around the Tor are quite visible. There are those who say that the pattern of these terraces form a maze when viewed from above. The path leading off to the left and up through the trees takes you to the top of the Tor. The person in the red jacket (very close to the center of the photo - check the 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 images if you're having trouble finding the person in the lower resolution images) is sitting on a bench located along the trail. The steepest part of the trail is the part leading up to the bench since it goes pretty well straight uphill. After the bench, the trail gets quite a bit easier as it roughly follows the terraces off to the left and around the back of the Tor (note that no part of the trail is actually all that difficult and most people should be able to handle it with relative ease (your mileage may, of course, vary)). The 1024x768 version is here. The 1280x1024 version is here. The 1600x1200 version is here.

Although not useable as background images, here are two photos of the bell tower of St. Michaels Church at the top of the Tor. The first photo (on the left if your screen is wide enough) shows the tower from the side that the church would have been attached to. That's my daughter Joelle and I in the doorway. The second photo is taken from just below the top of the Tor and shows the tower from the side (the left side in the first photo). I don't know any of the people in this photograph. As near as I can recall, all four sides of the tower are the same colour. The colour differences between these two photos is, I believe, primarily due to the fact that the first photo is showing a side of the tower that was in the shade. I'm not sure that this explains the entire difference and I can't seem to get the colours any better using GIMP so they'll have to do as they are (for what it is worth, I believe that the second photograph better represents the actual colour of the tower).