Pilton is famous as the location of the Glastonbury Festival, which is run by farmer Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily. Pilton is now almost 20 miles from the sea but is on the edge of the Somerset Levels which has now been drained but was once a shallow tidal lake. In Saxon times Pilton, then known as Pooltown, was a harbour and according to legend it is where Joseph of Arimathea landed in Britain in the 1st century.