Should be called the Glastonbury (or similar / related) marshes. Glastonbury connection to Avalon is a late Monastic invention to get pilgrims (paying tourists).
Avalon is a corruption of the Welsh Isle of Apples (Similar in Irish, also place of Apples) an otherworld created by Manawydan fab Llŷr (Irish Manannán mac Lir, not the King in Children of Lir but Ler). It's also a mistaken later idea that the Isle of Man is named after him.
Ray McCarthy
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