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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
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Leiston Abbey began out here on the Minsmere marshes in 1182, until repeated flooding drove the Premonstratensian canons inland to the site near the town in the 1360s. A chapel was kept going on the low island above the reedbeds, lived in by a retired abbot as a hermit until the Dissolution, and its broken walls are the only thing left of the first abbey. A WWII pillbox was built inside them. The footpath from Eastbridge towards the sluice passes close by, which is how most people see it — from the path, nothing else laid on. Dunwich is up the coast.
More at the National Heritage List entry
