individual fields, houses (messuages), mills or works. A holder of a benefice could retain the glebe for his own use, usually for agricultural exploitation, or he could "farm" it (i.e., lease it, a term also used) to others and retain a rent as income.

Britain

Church of England

Glebe associated with the Church of England ceased to belong to individual incumbents as from 1 April 1978,

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