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Muchelney Abbey

📍 Somerset, England

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Muchelney Abbey is an English Heritage property in the village of Muchelney in the Somerset Levels, England. The site consists of ruined walls showing the layout of the abbey buildings constructed from the 7th to 16th centuries, and the remaining intact Abbot's House. It is next to the parish church in which some of the fabric of the abbey has been reused.

Founded in the 8th century on an island in the Somerset Levels. The name means 'great island' in Old English. The abbey was refounded by King Athelstan in 939. The remarkably complete abbot's lodging survives with medieval wall paintings and a thatched roof—one of the finest surviving monastic domestic buildings in England. Managed by English Heritage.