Bermondsey Abbey was an English Benedictine monastery.

He thought of Ranulf, his body-servant, and wished he was here, not sick with the fever, miles away in some English monastery.

The great medieval English monasteries produced large surpluses of wool that were sold to Europe.

Worth Abbey, an English Benedictine monastery, and Worth School are both located in the parish.

In the same period the great English Cistercian monastery at Rievaulx had 140 monks and 600 lay brothers.

The Abbey was one of the oldest English monasteries, founded as early as the 7th century, but the gatehouse dates from the 15th century.

Quite a number of Irish churchmen had spent time in the great English monasteries like Canterbury and Worcester.

By merging with traditional land-tenure and customs, the new charitable houses became popular and were distinct from both English monasteries and French hospitals.

Edmund was then sent to an English monastery where he later died.

Several English monasteries objecting to this, were finally obliged to submit by Pope Eugene III (1148).