Glastonbury

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Glastonbury. In Somerset, one of the oldest English monasteries. Its history goes back to the 7th cent., but it became a famous Benedictine centre from c.940 under its abbot St Dunstan. About 1135 William of Malmesbury wrote its history, and in a 13th-cent. revision of this are the legends which associate it with Joseph of Arimathea, King Arthur, and St Patrick.

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