Sibton Abbey
Ruins · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- 1536
- Founded
- 1101
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 52.275, 1.465
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Sibton Abbey, an early Cistercian abbey located in Sibton near Yoxford, Suffolk, was founded about 1150 by William de Chesney, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Abbey is a daughter house of Warden Abbey, near Bedford, Bedfordshire. It was the only Cistercian abbey in East Anglia. It was dissolved in 1536.