A Guide to the Shops of Glastonbury

Glastonbury is one of the increasingly rare British towns where shoppers are not swamped by the large multinational businesses which have turned most other towns and city centres into clones of one another. The experience of shopping in Glastonbury feels totally and genuinely unique and one can find items here which are rare, if not otherwise impossible, to source outside of the internet.

Perhaps understandably, given the area's reputation for powerful spiritual energies and the hippie-inspired origins of the world famous Glastonbury Festival, the main focus of the majority of Glastonbury's shops seems centred upon New Age and other esoteric interests. Whilst this common theme does engender a certain degree of similitude amongst the various vendors, there is enough distinct character between each store to keep visitors curious enough to want to explore most, if not all, of the shops in the town.

Magdalene Street, Yule 2012

Many of the shops in Glastonbury are of a transient nature and one of the joys/sadnesses of regularly visiting the town is discovering which old favourite shops have departed the centre and which thrilling  new enterprises have replaced them. Whilst a numerous number of the shops detailed below have now been lost to Glastonbury, they are presented below as a taster to whet your appetite as to the kind of shopping experience you can expect from one of the country's most unique town centres:

Abbey Antiques

The Abbey Shop

2007

...

2013

2013

Art of Africa

2006

Artisan

The old Truckle of Cheese, now Artisan:

Ashtat Centre

Bag End Grow Shop

Bedlam

2006

2013

Bishopston Trading Company

Boots

Burn's the Bread

2010

2013

Cancer Research UK

Cat & Cauldron

Cat's Whisker's (The)
2006

Celteach

Celtic Thread (The)
2006

Chalice Well Shop

2006

Colour of Sound

Conscious Clothing

2012

Courtyard Books

Covenstead's Curious Cottage

Crystals

Crystal Man (The)

2006

D Mays

Debra Rose

Dicketts

Dilliway & Dilliway

2006

Yule 2012

Yule 2013

Dusty Attic Bears

Earthfare

2006

Elestial

Winter 2012

Enchanted Florals

Enlightenment

Facets of Avalon December 2012

Faery Tales

Fruition

Gaia

Glastonbury Discount Centre
2006

Glastonbury Flower Shop (The)
2006

Glastonbury Music Shop (The)
2006

Goddess and the Green Man (The)
2006

2007

2012

God's Gift Emporium
2013

Gothic Image
2006

2007

Growing Needs

Happy Glastonbury

Yule 2013

Haruka
December 2013

Heartfelt Trading

2006

Yule 2006

Hemp in Avalon

2006

Hidden Well (The)
2012

Hunab Ku

Julian the Jeweller

Kashi

Kids Again
2006

Labyrinth
2006

Lilith

2006

2007

2010

2012

2013

Little Imps
2006

Look at My Crazy Shoes
2006

Lomi Love Bus (The)

Magick Box (The) 2006

Magpie's Nest (The) Yule 2013

Man, Myth & Magik

2006

Margaret Kimber 2006

2007

2010

2012

Market Stalls 2006

Mystic Garden(The) 2013

Natural Earthling

2006

Now That's Weird 2006

Old Tyme Sweets
December 2012

Orangerie (The)

December 2013

Padma Ltd
Winter 2012

Pipes of Peace

Pixie Taylor (The)

Post Office

Psychic Piglet (The)

2006

2007

Ralph Bending

Rowan Centre (The)

RWT
2006

Saint Martha Botanical
The Saint Martha Botanica Shop, Replacing Glastonbury's Witchcraft Shop:

Serendipty

Shaw Trust
2006

Speaking Tree (The)

2006

2007

2012

2013

Star Child

2006

2007

2010

2012

2013

Stone Age

2006

2007

Summer of Love
2006

2007

Tor Records 2006

Truckle of Cheese (The)

Painting on The Truckle of Cheese Shop, 2007

2006

Twilight Zone (The) 2013

Venus

2007

2010

Wardrobe (The)

W H Smith

Wild Hunt (The) 2012

W J Ayles & Son

2006

Wah Wah 2013

Whispered Wishes 2007

2013

Whitehead News

2006

2007

Witchcraft Emporium

2006

2009

Witchcraft Ltd

2006

Yin Yang 2006

Yvonne Anne

2009

Glastonbury High Street