Glastonbury, South West • England
Famous for its abbey and tor, Glastonbury is a working Somerset town in the South West of England, on the A361 in the BA postcode area with Wells six miles away and the M5 thirteen miles east. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced houses and flats here — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking matched to your vehicles, all on one monthly invoice, paid by card.
Glastonbury's housing is a mix you only get in Somerset: stone cottages and period fronts around the High Street and the abbey, 1930s semis along the Wells and Street roads, and post-war estates towards the edge of town with the driveways crews need. The centre is lovely to visit but awkward to park a van in, so most crew houses sit on the fringes with off-street spaces and quick access to the A361.
We check the usual working list: two bathrooms for five or more, a kitchen that handles batch cooking, proper heating for a Levels winter, and room to dry gear after a wet shift. Parking is matched against your vehicle list before the shortlist is sent, and photos come with every option so a supervisor can approve from site without a wasted journey.
The tor gets the photos, but the work is ordinary and steady: housing development around the town and across the Somerset Levels, manufacturing and logistics employers in Street and along the M5 corridor, and NHS and healthcare contracts at the hospitals in Wells, Shepton Mallet and Bridgwater. Energy and grid crews also pass through regularly, serving the wind and solar sites scattered across the Levels.
Glastonbury works well as a shared base for crews covering Wells, Street, Shepton Mallet and the Bridgwater end of the county — all within half an hour's drive, all on decent roads, and all easier to base from than the bigger towns when things get busy. One address covers an unusually wide patch of Somerset, and the crew keeps the same bed all season.
The A361 runs north to Wells and Shepton Mallet and south towards Taunton, while the A39 heads west for Bridgwater and the coast. The M5 at junction 23 is about thirteen miles east, and Bath and Bristol are both within an hour. Glastonbury has no station of its own — the nearest railheads are Castle Cary, roughly eleven miles south, and Bridgwater to the west.
As always, we shortlist by real drive time to your site at the hours your crew actually travels, and we'll happily consider Street or Wells if they put the crew closer to the job. Levels roads can be slow after heavy rain, which is another reason we check routes rather than trusting the map. It's a small check that makes a real difference over a long contract.
Your crew takes the whole property — no shared hallways, no strangers. Bills are in our name, broadband is tested before check-in, and parking is verified against your vehicle list. Houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen keeps a long job civilised, with bedding ready and the kitchen basics already in place.
One monthly invoice covers the lot, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Maintenance is ours: report it, we fix it, your site manager hears about it only if they want to. The crew just lives in the house; everything behind the walls and under the floors is our problem, not theirs — that's the deal.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Alongside Glastonbury itself we shortlist in Street, Wells, Shepton Mallet, Somerton and sometimes Bridgwater, depending on where the site sits. The A361, A39 and M5 link them all, so the best base isn't always the most obvious one — send us the site address and we'll work out what genuinely shortens the commute.
Hotels here fill up fast in season and charge per room per night, with vans left wherever there's a gap. A crew house gives everyone one address, a kitchen, a sitting room, laundry and proper parking — and on stays beyond a couple of weeks it's usually the cheaper option too, especially with bills included.
Send the site address, headcount, dates and vehicle list, and a shortlist comes back within two working hours. Viewings are typically same or next day, and check-in can happen within a few days once paperwork is sorted. If the job starts Monday, call us early in the week rather than waiting.
Yes, but you have to pick the right streets — the town centre is tight. We shortlist properties with driveways or garages, mostly on the estates and roads out towards Street and Wells, and each one is checked against your actual vehicles before it's offered. If it can't fit your vans, it doesn't make the list.
The site location, the number of crew, start date and rough duration, and what vehicles are coming. That's enough for a shortlist within two working hours and firm pricing. If you're flexible on area — Street or Wells, say — mention it, as that sometimes unlocks better-placed or better-value houses.
Usually, yes. Give us as much notice as you can and we'll first try to extend the current house; if it's already re-let, we'll move the crew to another property nearby with minimal disruption. Everything continues on the same card payment monthly invoice, and there's no penalty for the overrun itself.
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If Glastonbury is short on the right house for your crew, Bristol is the obvious back-up, roughly 21 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Bristol page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Glastonbury? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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