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Glebe associated with the Church Of England ceased to belong to individual incumbents as from 1 April 1978, by virtue of the Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976; instead, it became vested on that date, 'without any conveyance or other assurance', in the Diocesan Board of Finance of the diocese to which the benefice owning the glebe belonged, even if the glebe was in another diocese. UNITED STATES In the American Colonies of Great Britain where the Church of England was the established religion, glebe land was distributed by the colonial government, and was often farmed or rented out by the by a church rector to cover living expenses. This practice was no longer observed following the Disestablishment of state churches that accompanied the American Revolution . The many roads in the eastern United States and other former British colonial possessions that bear this name once run past a church glebe property. PLACE NAMES It is also the name of several places: In Australia:
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