Marham Abbey was situated in the village of Marham

Marham

Marham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. An RAF station, RAF Marham, is situated nearby at Upper Marham.The village covers an area of and had a population of 2,951 in 788 households as of the 2001 census....

, southeast of King's Lynn

King's Lynn

King's Lynn is a sea port and market town in the ceremonial county of Norfolk in the East of England. It is situated north of London and west of Norwich. The population of the town is 42,800....

, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, England

England

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. It was founded by Isabel, Countess of Arundel, in 1249 as a monastery for Cistercian nuns

Cistercian nuns

Cistercian nuns are female members of the Cistercian Order, a religious order belonging to the Roman Catholic branch of the Catholic Church.-History:...

 and dedicated to St Mary, St Barbara and St Edmund.

Being of little wealth or status, in 1536 the monastery was in the first wave of closures during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...

and was reportedly in considerable disarray, with the inhabitants accused of disreputable behaviour. The site was granted to Sir Nicholas and John Hare, residents of London.

What little remains of the complex is on private land and consists of some stretches of walling of the church, visible from a nearby main road.