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These major monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII of England in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since virtually every town of any size had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it, and often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.
- Abbey Dore (Cistercian)
- Basingwerk Abbey (Cistercian)
- Bath Abbey (Benedictine)
- Battle Abbey (Benedictine)
- Beaulieu Abbey (Cistercian)
- Bisham Abbey (Augustinian)
- Bolton Abbey (Augustinian)
- Boxgrove Priory (Benedictine)
- Bridlington Priory
- Brinkburn Priory (Augustinian)
- Buckfast Abbey (Cistercian)
- Byland Abbey (Cistercian)
- St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (Benedictine)
- Cartmel Priory (Augustinian)
- Charterhouse London {Carthusian)
- Christchurch Priory (Augustinian)
- Colchester Abbey (Benedictine)
- Crowland Abbey (Benedictine)
- Easby Abbey (White Canons)
- Ewenny Priory (Benedictine)
- Forde Abbey (Cistercian)
- Fountains Abbey (Cistercian)
- Furness Abbey (Cistercian)
- Gloucester - St Peter's Abbey (Benedictine)
- Gisborough Priory (Augustinian)
- Hailes Abbey (Cistercian)
- Hexham Abbey (Benedictine)
- Jarrow Priory (Benedictine)
- Jervaulx Abbey (Cistercian)
- Lacock Abbey (Augustinian)
- Lanercost Priory (Benedictine)
- Lewes Priory (Cluniac)
- Lindisfarne Priory (Benedictine)
- Llanthony Priory (Augustinian)
- Malmesbury Abbey (Benedictine)
- Malvern Priory (Benedictine)
- Margam Abbey (Cistercian)
- Mattersey Priory (Gilbertine)
- Michelham Priory (Augustinian)
- Milton Abbey (Benedictine)
- Mount Grace Priory (Carthusian)
- Neath Abbey (Cistercian)
- Netley Abbey (Cistercian)
- Newstead Abbey (Augustinian)
- Pershore Abbey (Benedictine)
- Reading Abbey (Clunaic)
- Rievaulx Abbey (Cistercian)
- Roche Abbey (Cistercian)
- Romsey Abbey (Benedictine)
- St Mary's Abbey York (Benedictine)
- Selby Abbey (Benedictine)
- Sempringham Abbey (Gilbertine)
- Shap Abbey (White Canons)
- Shrewsbury Abbey (Benedictine}
- Sion House London (Bridgettine)
- Strata Florida Abbey (Cistercian)
- Tavistock Abbey (Benedictine)
- Talley Abbey (White Canons)
- Tewkesbury Abbey (Benedictine)
- Thetford Priory (Cluniac)
- Thornton Abbey (Augustinian)
- Tintern Abbey (Cistercian)
- Tynemouth Priory (Benedictine)
- Valle Crucis Abbey (Cistercian)
- Waltham Abbey (Augustinian) - the last abbey in England to be dissolved.
- Westminster Abbey (Benedictine)
- Whitby Abbey
- Woburn Abbey
- Woodspring Priory (Augustinian)
