How big really is Glastonbury?

[Divein]

I know this has been posted on here before but I can't find the thread. So with a few first timers about I thought I'd get the postcode checker from the bbc.

Just put a postcode in and it will overlay the Glastonbury outline over the area giving you an example of how big it it.

http://howbigreally.com/dimension/festivals_and_specticles/glastonbury#

[Kyelo]

I know this has been posted on here before but I can't find the thread. So with a few first timers about I thought I'd get the postcode checker from the bbc.

Just put a postcode in and it will overlay the Glastonbury outline over the area giving you an example of how big it it.

http://howbigreally.com/dimension/festivals_and_specticles/glastonbury#

My friends are always surprised when I show them that, it is about the same size as my town but has 9 times as many people!

Edited April 1, 2013 by Kyelo

[mungo57]

Wow thats insane

Takes up the entirety of where I am from

[dingbat2]

"Glastonbury is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to Glastonbury"

[giantkatestacks]

Great site. Mine was actually smaller than I thought tho.

[smytho15]

Brilliant never seen that before. The bbc did similar with camp bastion now that is big

[Big Vern]

I realised just how big it was after U2 in 2011. Granted it was pissing down and muddy but it took us 2 hours to get back to west camper van far field!!!

[tolywoly]

First time I've seen that. Thanks.

[Bullet Tin]

It's the proposals for the new metro system that give it away.

[Anarion]

Damn, I need to get myself to the Kumbh Mela festival.

[guypjfreak]

ive heard its the size of swindon

[Mistress Jones]

Chuffing hell that's big.

[Mardy]

It's dead good that. Unfortunately, doesn't really work for me as I live next to the beach, so it just stretches out into the sea

[coma girl]

It's dead good that. Unfortunately, doesn't really work for me as I live next to the beach, so it just stretches out into the sea

Same for me.

[abdoujaparov]

"How big really is Glastonbury"...sounds like a bad translation from Japanese

[Ruwise]

That's fun to see.

[BlackHole2006]

That is mental

[SOAD]

It's actually smaller than I thought it would be after all your comments... I walk much than the full length multiple times a day... gonna be harder to get around with all the people granted but getting around doesnt sound as bad as I thought it was going to be.

[lukemack]

Alot smaller than I've always thought when put into that perspective

[Kyelo]

It's actually smaller than I thought it would be after all your comments... I walk much than the full length multiple times a day... gonna be harder to get around with all the people granted but getting around doesnt sound as bad as I thought it was going to be.

If you could go from edge to edge as the bird flies, it would take 35/40 minutes. However throw in hundreds of thousands of people, vehicles, hills, non direct routes, mud, moving entertainment etc this number jumps to hours. I once spent 3 and a half hours walking around the edge of Glastonbury!

[SOAD]

If you could go from edge to edge as the bird flies, it would take 35/40 minutes. However throw in hundreds of thousands of people, vehicles, hills, non direct routes, mud, moving entertainment etc this number jumps to hours. I once spent 3 and a half hours walking around the edge of Glastonbury!

Yeah I know it's not gonna be as quick but it makes me feel a bit better as I've got a bit of a dodgy leg and the distance was bothering me... the leg is getting better but it's been bad for years so it prob wont be totally better by then. I'm quite happy to take things slowly anywayz.. want to check out as much as possible. It's very unlikely I'm gonna be going from one side of the site to another in any kind of rush.

Edited April 1, 2013 by SOAD

[whateverman]

Glatonbury is not that big really. If it was a pavemented, flat, spacious mall you could wander across it in no time.

But factor in mud or soil, uneven surfaces, tractor tracks, hills, a lack of straight lines, immense crowds in places, intoxication (yours and others), dim lighting, tents, distractions, accumulated exhaustion, etc. and it soon turn into the equivalent of a sprawling metropolis.

Physically it's perfectly managable, psychologically it's bloody immense (wonderfully immersive, sometimes overwhelming).

eta: great minds think alike.

Edited April 1, 2013 by whateverman

[SOAD]

BTW just wondering can you walk along the old railway track? looks like a good way of getting to pretty much any part of the site.

[Kyelo]

Yeah I know it's not gonna be as quick but it makes me feel a bit better as I've got a bit of a dodgy leg and the distance was bothering me... the leg is getting better but it's been bad for years so it prob wont be totally better by then. I'm quite happy to take things slowly anywayz.. want to check out as much as possible. It's very unlikely I'm gonna be rushing from one side of the site to another in any kind of rush.

That's the best way to do it!

[quiet guy]

BTW just wondering can you walk along the old railway track? looks like a good way of getting to pretty much any part of the site.

Yes that is the main route from below the Park area across to where Arcadia was in previous years.