Abbey

Look up abbey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Abbey in itself denotes the Christian monastic community and its buildings, that is presided over by an abbot.

Well-known fictional abbeys, not listed, include:

• Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
• Rabelais' Abbey of Thélème
• Downton Abbey
• Redwall Abbey

Abbey may refer to:

• Abbey (surname)

Locations, organizations and things

• Abbey (Barking and Dagenham ward)
• Abbey (Bath and North East Somerset ward)
• Abbey (Cambridge ward)
• Abbey (Derby ward)
• Abbey (East Staffordshire ward)
• Abbey (Gloucester ward)
• Abbey (Leicester ward)
• Abbey (Lincoln ward)
• Abbey (Merton ward)
• Abbey (North Dorset ward)
• Abbey (Nuneaton and Bedworth ward)
• Abbey (Reading ward)
• Abbey (Redditch ward)
• Abbey (Rushcliffe ward)
• Abbey (Sandwell ward)
• Abbey (South Norfolk ward)
• Abbey (Swale ward)
• Abbey (Test Valley ward)
• Abbey (Warwick ward)
• Abbey (Wycombe ward)
• The Abbey Foundation (est. 2009), an American non-profit organization
• The Abbey Center, an addiction treatment facility in the United States
• The Abbey, Annandale, a heritage home in Sydney, Australia
• Abbey (bank), a former British bank, part of the Spanish banking group, Grupo Santander
• The Abbey Theatre of Dublin opened in 1904
• Abbey Road (street), north London is the site of Abbey Road Studios where The Beatles' Abbey Road was recorded
• Abbey Stadium is homeground for Cambridge United F.C.
• Abbey, Saskatchewan, town in Canada
• Abbey, Devon, England
• The Abbey (Daytona Beach, Florida), a historic site in Florida
• The Abbey (club), a gay bar and nightclub in West Hollywood, California
• Abbey (coachbuilder) was an English car body builder of the 1930s
• Abbey (1922 automobile), a short-lived British friction-drive car made by the defunct Abbey Auto Engineering Co. Ltd
• Neo-Gothic Fonthill Abbey, which was never an abbey
• Abbey, a British caravan manufacturer
• The Abbey (documentary), a 1995 BBC TV documentary film on Westminster Abbey
• The Abbey, Australian version of The Monastery (TV series)
• The Abbey (TV series), 2007 ITV drama
• Woburn Abbey, near Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, the seat of the Duke of Bedford and the location of the Woburn Safari Park
• Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament constituency), a former UK Parliament constituency sometimes known as Abbey
• Abbey River, a river in England
• Abbey (Barking and Dagenham ward)

See also

• Abby (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.