Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey is a monastery in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Glastonbury Abbey is situated nearby to the reservoir Foundry Pond, as well as near Hull Street Playground.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Nantasket Junction station and Cohasset station.

Nantasket Junction station

Railway station

Photo: Pottewa, Public domain.

Nantasket Junction station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Hingham, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. It is located off Chief Justice Cushing Highway east of downtown Hingham. Nantasket Junction station is situated 4,200 feet west of Glastonbury Abbey.

Cohasset station

Railway station

Photo: Pottewa, Public domain.

Cohasset station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Cohasset, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. It is located off Chief Justice Cushing Highway west of downtown Cohasset. Cohasset station is situated 1 mile east of Glastonbury Abbey.

Paragon Park Carousel

Carousel

Photo: Marcbela, CC0.

The Paragon Park Carousel is a historic carousel at 1 Wharf Avenue in Hull, Massachusetts. Built in 1928 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, it is one of the state's only surviving four-wide carousels, and is the only surviving element of the Paragon Park amusement park. Paragon Park Carousel is situated 1½ miles north of Glastonbury Abbey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hingham and Cohasset.

Hingham

Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.

Hingham is a coastal town in the South Shore region of Massachusetts about 15 miles south of Boston.

Cohasset

Photo: Wwoods, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cohasset is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The town, which split off from Hingham in 1770, derives its name from the Massachusett word "Conahasset". It is an exclave of Norfolk County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,381.

North Scituate

Village

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.

North Scituate is a census-designated place in the town of Scituate in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, North Scituate had a population of 5,414. It was formerly known as Gannet Corner. North Scituate is situated 4 miles southeast of Glastonbury Abbey.

Glastonbury Abbey

Type: Monastery
Denomination: Catholic
Categories: religious organization and religion
Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.24695° or 42° 14′ 49″ north

Longitude

-70.85306° or 70° 51′ 11″ west

Operator

Benedictines

Open location code

87JF64WW+QQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29690997

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=monastery

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=religious

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=catholic

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