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Abbey in itself denotes the Christian monastic community and its buildings, that is presided over by an abbot.
People
Places
- Abbey River, a river in England
Locations
- Abbey (Barking and Dagenham ward)
- Abbey (County Clare Civil Parish)
- Abbey (Derby ward)
- Abbey, Devon, England
- Abbey (Leicester ward)
- Abbey (Lincoln ward)
- Abbey (Merton ward), see List of electoral wards in Greater London
- Abbey (Nuneaton and Bedworth ward)
- Abbey (Reading ward)
- Abbey, Renfrewshire
- Abbey (Rushcliffe ward)
- Abbey (Sandwell ward), ward in Sandwell
- Abbey, Saskatchewan, town in Canada
- Abbey, Western Australia
- Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament constituency), a former UK Parliament constituency sometimes known as Abbey
Facilities and structures
- The Abbey, Annandale, a heritage home in Sydney, Australia
- The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a medieval manor house in Oxfordshire, England
- Abbey Road, London, site of Abbey Road Studios where The Beatles' Abbey Road was recorded
- Abbey Stadium, homeground for Cambridge United F.C.
- The Abbey (Daytona Beach, Florida), a historic site in Florida
- Neo-Gothic Fonthill Abbey, which was never an abbey
- Woburn Abbey, near Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, the seat of the Duke of Bedford and the location of the Woburn Safari Park
Organizations and companies
- The Abbey (club), a gay bar and nightclub in West Hollywood, California
- Abbey (coachbuilder), an English car body builder of the 1930s
- Abbey National, a former British bank, part of the Spanish banking group, Grupo Santander
- The Abbey Theatre, a Dublin theatre opened in 1904
Entertainment and media
- The Abbey (novel), science-fiction novel by the Romanian author Dan Doboș
Television
- 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
Games
- Mystery of the Abbey, a board game
- Murder in the Abbey, a video game
Fictional abbeys
- Rabelais' Abbey of Thélème
- Downton Abbey
- Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
- Redwall Abbey
Other uses
- Abbey (1853), Australian ship
- Abbey (automobile), a short-lived British friction-drive car made by the defunct Abbey Auto Engineering Co. Ltd
See also
- L' Abeye, Belgium
- Abby (disambiguation)
- Abey (name)
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