- Visiting Glastonbury Abbey. The abbey is entered through the Abbey Gatehouse, an imposing arched gateway located on off Magdalene Street.
- Glastonbury Abbey became so rich due to the increase of visitors that by the 14th century it was second only to Westminster Abbey in terms of wealth.
- Glastonbury Abbey is located in the centre of Glastonbury and can be reached by taking Junction 23 off the M5 and following the signs into the town.
- Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, England. ... ancient island of Ynys Witrin, sometimes known as the Glass Isle, or Avalon, better known today as Glastonbury.
- Glastonbury Abbey was founded in the 7th century. There are legends that Glastonbury was a religious center in Celtic or even pre-Celtic times.
- There are few places where history and mythology, beauty and tragedy, dissolution and rebirth, meet so powerfully as in Glastonbury Abbey.
- GLASTONBURY ABBEY occupies what is believed to be the site of the first Christian Church building in the world.
- Glastonbury Abbey is a ruined abbey located in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. The abbey was founded in the 7th century AD, and enlarged in the 10th century.
- By the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, Glastonbury Abbey was the wealthiest monastic house recorded in the land.
- The history and legends that surround Glastonbury Abbey are unparalleled by any other Abbey in England.