Glastonbury Abbey, Abbey of Glastonbury, Benedictine abbey, holder of Ashbury manor
Dates: Medieval religious house; dissolved during the reign of Henry VIII
Biography
The Benedictine abbey whose possessions included the Pucklechurch estate and associated settlements including Abson and Wick.
Notes / Sources
Institutional holder; the evidence is for the wider predecessor estate.
Research sources:
- J. F. Meehan, More Famous Houses of Bath and District, second series, 1906, p. 92, discussion of Abson and Wick; corroborated by the historical account of Abson and Wick published from nineteenth-century gazetteer material. — https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/More_famous_houses_of_Bath_%26_district%3B_being_the_second_series_of_that_work_%28IA_morefamoushouses00meeh%29.pdf
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