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In the Roman Catholic and Anglican church traditions, a glebe was an area of land belonging to a parish, the revenues from which were intended to help support the parish. A glebe-house is a rectory built for the parish priest, vicar, pastor, or rector, usually at church expense.

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.

It is also the name of several places:

In Australia:

• Glebe, Tasmania, suburb of Hobart, Tasmania
• Glebe, New South Wales, suburb of Sydney, New South Wales
  • Glebe Dirty Reds was the first Rugby League club formed in Australia
• Glebe Park, Canberra, a public park on the eastern side of Civic, Canberra

In Canada:

• The Glebe is an historic neighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, named for the parish fields on which it was built
• Glebe Collegiate Institute is a secondary school located in The Glebe.

In Northern Ireland:

• Glebe, County Tyrone, a small village in County Tyrone
• Glebe, Belfast, an area in North Belfast

In the United States:

• Glebe Road, a highway in Arlington, Virginia
• Glebe, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia named for its glebehouse and parish fields.

In England:

• The Glebe, a street in Norton, County Durham
• Glebe Street, a street in Castleford, West Yorkshire
• Glebe Street, a street in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire