- The Glastonbury Abbey is full of history, including the alleged site of King Arthur's grave and the Glastonbury Thorn.
- The abbot of Glastonbury kept great state, now attested to simply by the ruins of the abbey kitchen, with four huge fireplaces at its corners.
- Glastonbury Abbey was one of principal victims of this action by the King, during the social and religious upheaval known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
- Every year, for five days in June, the attention of many music fans in the UK and beyond is on a festival held on farm land near Glastonbury in Somerset.
- Like many other religious buildings, Glastonbury Abbey was suppressed in the early 16th century during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII.
- The medieval Glastonbury Canal was built about the middle of the 10th century to link the abbey with the River Brue, a distance of about 1.75 kilometres (1,900 yd).
- There are a couple of car parks in the centre of Glastonbury within walking distance of the abbey. Well worth a visit if staying in or near Glastonbury.
- Accordingly Abbot Whiting was sent back to Somersetshire, still apparently in ignorance of the fact that there was now no Glastonbury Abbey for him to return to.
- By the 16th century, Glastonbury Abbey was one of the most powerful landowners in the country and its Abbots leading figures in national political life.
- Accordingly Abbot Whiting was sent back to Somersetshire, still apparently in ignorance of the fact that there was now no Glastonbury Abbey for him to return to.