Glastonbury: field of dreams

The first Glastonbury festival attracted 1,500 hippies. Now, 40 years on, it is bigger than ever. So what is the secret of its success?Worthy Farm lies between two limestone ridges on the southern tip of the Mendip Hills, six miles east of Glastonbury. This is a region famed for its legends and its leylines, but for much of the year the farm's acres stretch in broad green tranquillity, preoccupied with the rhythms of dairy farming; the grazing and milking of nearly 400 cows that begins each day...

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