Tresco is the second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly. It is 297 ha in area, measuring about 3.5 km by 1.75 km. In early times one group of islands was in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. King Henry I gave it to Tavistock Abbey which established a priory on Tresco; it was abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The priory was g…
Tresco is the second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly. It is 297 ha in area, measuring about 3.5 km by 1.75 km. In early times one group of islands was in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. King Henry I gave it to Tavistock Abbey which established a priory on Tresco; it was abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The priory was given the care of souls in the secular islands by the lord of the fief. In 1233, a prior here, known as Alan of Cornwall, was made Abbot of Tavistock.
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