Glebe

In the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian traditions, a glebe is land belonging to a benefice and so by default to its incumbent.

In other words, "glebe is land (in addition to or including the parsonage house/rectory and grounds) which was assigned to support the priest".

[3] The word glebe itself comes from Middle English, from the Old French glèbe (originally from Latin: gleba or glaeba, "clod, land, soil").

[6] Glebe land could also entail complete farms, individual fields, houses (messuages), mills or works.

Ottawa neighbourhood The Glebe was originally land dedicated to support St Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

Conjectural map of a medieval manor . The method of "strip farming" was in use under the open field system . The mustard-coloured areas are part of the demesne , the hatched areas part of the glebe . The manor house , residence of the lord , can be seen in the mid-southern part of the manor, near the parish church and parsonage