Creake Abbey sits within beautiful water meadows just a few miles south of Burnham Market and the glorious north Norfolk coast.

A stone’s throw from the impressive ruins of an Augustinian Abbey, dating from 1206, you’ll find an array of independent shops offering homewares, design, furniture, fabrics, antiques, glassware and pristine, pre-loved designer clothing and accessories. Services include a boutique hairdresser and a dog groomer. The Barn Café on site is open within a bright and airy space decorated by Kelling Home and adjacent to a wonderful, colourful emporium run by Kelling Home & Friends.

The popular and award-winning Creake Abbey Farmers' Market takes place on the first Saturday of the month (excluding January) providing a forum for over 65 food and drink producers/farmers/growers/makers from across East Anglia to share and sell their food and drink.

There is ample free parking right beside the shops.

If you are looking for a place to stay have a look at the charming holiday cottage, the Carrot House, at Creake Abbey. Click on the “Stay” tab for full information.

Plan Your Visit

The Barn Café

Please visit our Dine page for full information.

Visit the Café

Farmers’ Market

We host our award-winning Farmers’ Market on the first Saturday of each month (excluding January). There are over 60 stalls to choose from offering fresh local produce including meat, fresh vegetables, fruit and flowers in season, cheeses, cakes, savoury and sweet tartes, pies, fudge, artisan breads, pickles, oils, vinegars, preserves, local wines & ales, juices and plants plus much more.

The market is delighted to have been named as a Champion in the East of England at the Countryside Alliance Awards 2025. This award recognises the many ways in which the market supports farmers, growers and small businesses in the food & drink sector across the East of England. Diana Brocklebank Scott, owner of Creake Abbey and Stephen Brown of SR Brown Farms (Old Coach House Fruit) will be attending the ceremony at the House of Lords.

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What’s On At Creake Abbey

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Jul 5

Jul 5, 2025

Farmers' Market

Jul 5, 2025

July is riot of soft fruits and fresh veggies - come and discover Norfolk Blueberries from West Acre Farms and Old Coach House Fruit, from Clenchwarton, with homegrown raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, herbs, preserves and more in the Main Barn. Fresh flowers from Pulvertoft Flowers or pasture reared eggs from Glovers Farm! This is the time of year for summer pudding and evening get-togethers.

Jul 5, 2025

Moving Parts Theatre Co. presents Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" in the abbey ruins

Jul 13

Jul 13, 2025

Moving Parts Theatre Co. presents Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" in the abbey ruins

Jul 13, 2025

Welcome to VANITY FAIR - a giddy carousel of social climbers, buffoons and preening dandies by William Makepeace Thackeray!

Following the huge success of last summer’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, we are delighted to welcome back Moving Parts Theatre Company to perform their latest show in the stunning setting of the Creake Abbey ruins.

In a world of gossip and speculation, all is to play for and the stakes are perilously high - for romantic Amelia Sedley, consumed with her obsessive love, and Becky Sharp, an irrepressible schemer who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

With a dazzling score of original music, this brand new adaptation of Thackeray’s tale of greed, ambition, love and betrayal transports audiences from Regency salons and ballrooms to the battlefield of Waterloo!

Enjoy a picnic and a glorious evening of high comedy, drama, inventive story-telling and toe-tapping tunes! Tickets on sale now:

Jul 13, 2025