The name signifies the " Abbot's broad ford " on the River Ivel, the abbot in question being that of Sherborne ; the land was given to Sherborne Abbey by King Alfred the Great.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

Abbot's studies were chiefly in Oriental languages and textual criticism of the New Testament, though his work as a bibliographer showed such results as the exhaustive list of writings ( 5300 in all ) on the doctrine of the future life, appended to W. R. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, as it has prevailed in all Nations and Ages ( 1862 ), and published separately in 1864.

Abbot's publications, though always of the most thorough and scholarly character, were to a large extent dispersed in the pages of reviews, dictionaries, concordances, texts edited by others, Unitarian controversial treatises, etc.

The misunderstanding probably stems from a passage in Robert Abbot's work A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe Keepe out Sinne and Antichrist, in which he thanks the Archbishop for " worldly maintenance ," " best earthly countenance ", and " fatherly incouragements.

Robert Abbot's books are conspicuous amongst the works of his time by their terseness and variety.

In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the farmers of the Abbot's personal estates ( known as Appenzell, from meaning " cell ( i. e. estate ) of the abbot ) began seeking independence.

Two of Abbot's melodramas, The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great ( 1817 ) and Swedish Patriotism ( 1819 ), were produced at Covent Garden.

The remains of the Abbot's Kitchen ( a grade I listed building.

The Inner Gateway which once guarded the way into the monks ' area with the Abbot's House from The Forbury, which was open to the general public.

The market town of Tewkesbury developed to the north of the abbey precincts, of which vestiges remain in the layout of the streets and a few buildings: the Abbot's gatehouse, the Almonry barn, the Abbey Mill, Abbey House, the present vicarage and some half-timbered dwellings in Church Street.

In 1619 George Abbot founded the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, now commonly known as Abbot's Hospital, one of the finest sets of almshouses in the country.

The hilltop Monks ' Road and the Abbot's Chair in Glossop is a reminder of the monks ' efforts to administer their possession.

The Abbot's Tower, the Middle Gateway and the Constable's Tower survive from this period.

The Abbot's Tower houses the Regimental Museum of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.

With an Old English name of Litelport, the village was worth 17, 000 Eels to the Abbot's of Ely in 1086.

In 1337 there was a famous riot in protest at the Abbot's control of this market in which several of the monks were killed.

* Jean Chrétien-Chrétien had one appearance on Air Farce, in which he claimed that Abbot's impersonation sounded more like Preston Manning.

On 15 May 1403, the Abbot's forces entered the pass leading to Speicher, and outside the village of Vögelinsegg they met the Appenzell army.

Some of the surviving buildings of the fire were the palace, the abbey and the Abbot's House.

In 2007, she had a role in the season finale of The Winner as Glen Abbot's former, and Josh's current, teacher, with whom Glen has his first sexual experience.

There are private indoor facilities at Hemel Indoor Tennis Centre at Abbot's Hill School, Nash Mills.

Abbot's solar cooker at Mount Wilson Observatory.

* DeVorkin, David H. "" Defending a Dream: Charles Greeley Abbot's Years at the Smithsonian.

He travelled to London in 1970 and worked at Hounslow Cottage Hospital and St Mary Abbot's Hospital in South Kensington.

He was the resident doctor on duty at St Mary Abbot's Hospital when the body of Jimi Hendrix was brought in.

Archaeological excavations have revealed a special apartment erected at the south end of the Abbot's house for a visit from Henry VII, who visited the Abbot in a royal progress, as he visited any other great territorial magnate.

There is no direct evidence of this ; however, Webster points out that it is interesting that at Abbot's Bromley the " horn dance " has survived from pagan ritual — Abbot's Bromley being only 55 km north east of the old tribal centre at Wroxeter ( Virconium Cornoviorum ).

Newton Abbot's cricket club, South Devon C. C., was established in 1851 and also play at the Recreation Ground.

Besides Mawarden Court at Stratford Sub Castle and the Down at Blandford, he acquired Boconnoc in Cornwall from Lord Mohun's widow in 1717, and subsequently Kynaston in Dorset, Bradock, Treskillard and Brannell in Cornwall, Woodyates on the border of Dorset and Wiltshire, Abbot's Ann in Hampshire ( where he rebuilt the church ) and, subsequently his favourite residence, Swallowfield Park in Berkshire, where he died in 1726.

Abbot's efforts effected the establishment of the Royal Record Commission, the reform of the system which had allowed the public money to lie for some time at long interest in the hands of the public accountants, by charging them with payment of interest, and, most important of all, the act for taking the first census, that of 1801.

The monks of Reading, under suspicion of complicity in the Abbot's alleged treason, were not given pensions normally set upon monks and nuns at the dissolution of their monasteries.

Following Abbot's election to the post of Speaker of the House of Commons in February 1802, Rickman took the post of Speaker's Secretary, which he held until July 1814 when he was appointed Second Clerk Assistant at the Table of the House of Commons.

In April, Gladstone defeated the Tories at the general election, delighting Charles and Emma Darwin though not all their relatives, and a buoyant Charles sent a large subscription to Abbot's The Index with hearty wishes for success in the " good cause of truth " and ' free religion '.

For the benefit of Marc Anthony de Dominis and at Abbot's request, Featley in 1617 kept his exercise for the degree of DD under John Prideaux ; Prideaux lost his temper, and Abbot had some difficulty in effecting a reconciliation.

Born Lavinia Mary Strutt, she was the only daughter of Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper and his wife, Eva and was educated at Abbot's Hill School.

This work, based on studies of classical and patristic antiquity, was at first apparently held back at Archbishop George Abbot's command, but it was issued in 1622 under the title of Analecta Ecclesiasticarum Exercitationum.

The details of Abbot's ecclesiastical career are somewhat unclear, and can only be pieced together from fragmentary evidence, but based on something he wrote in his work Bee Thankfull London and her Sisters, it is probable that he began his church service with a posting as " assistant to a reverend divine ".

However, the Abbot's reliance on the Swiss to support him reduced his position almost to that of a " subject district "

It is on the cliff-edge between Abbot's Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff.

The River Erme rises near the centre of southern Dartmoor on the Abbot's Way less than a mile to the south of the source of the River Plym.

There are many well-preserved half-timbered black-and-white houses here, among them the Abbot's House of c. 1500 on Butcher Row, and Rowley's House ( now home to the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery ) on Barker Street.

Featley and William Laud, Abbot's successor, were never on good terms.

He went on to appear on Russ Abbot's Madhouse, which debuted in 1980.

" ABBOTSKERSWELL, or Abbot's Carswell, is a pleasant village, two miles S. of Newton Abbot, and has in its parish 433 souls and 1600 acres of land, including several scattered houses and the hamlet of Aller, where there is a paper mill, on a rivulet 1 ½ mile from the church.

Monckton died on 21 May 1782 at age 55 and is buried in St. Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington, London.