A History of the County of Somerset – IX – Glastonbury and Street Dunning

Name: A History of the County of Somerset – IX – Glastonbury and Street Dunning
Brand: Victoria County History

Victoria County History

A History of the County of SomersetIX: Glastonbury and Street\nAuthor(s): R. W. Dunning, Robert Dunning\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Victoria County History, United Kingdom\nImprint: Victoria County History\nISBN-13: 9781904356233, 978-1904356233\nSynopsis\nClassic VCH account of the famous town of Glastonbury and its environs.\n\nThe ancient religious settlement of Glastonbury, with its many legendary associations stretching back into the Dark Ages, and the manufacturing town of Street, the creation of the late 19th century, are curious neighbours. They lie at the centre of the mysteriously-named Twelve Hides Hundred, the core estate of Glastonbury Abbey in the early Middle Ages. Around them, spreading into the low-lying moors of the Somerset Levels, are parishes which produced forthe abbey, after continuous improvement of drainage, most of its economic riches - meat, milk, cheese, fruit, wool, wine, cider, fish, stone, timber, and fuel.\nThe suppression of Glastonbury under unusua.