The Abbey owned property in west Oxfordshire, east Gloucestershire and at Priddy in Somerset.
Martin Troakes is a British actor who has played Roy Hutchinson in Tiger Bay, Ian Williams in Holby City, Terry Kerns in The Bill, Security Guard in Ultimate Force, Jim Cullimore in Heartbeat, Glen Priddy in Dalziel and Pascoe, Gordon Bayliss in Doctors and Joe Walsh in New Tricks.
Priddy is the mother of actress Christina Applegate, and has appeared with her in several projects, including the television series Married...with Children and the film The Sweetest Thing.
The plan was led by Dallaway's son William, who asked Thomas Dadford, Jr., the engineer on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and John Priddy, who had been the engineer on the Droitwich Canal during its construction, to carry out a survey.