Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum

A remarkable former abbey occupied by three religious orders, paired with a museum exploring farming and rural life in the Fens.

Denny Abbey has housed three religious communities, leaving an unusually layered building whose spaces changed purpose over centuries. The neighbouring Farmland Museum brings the story forward into the work and domestic life of the surrounding countryside. Together they offer a compelling contrast between medieval religious history and the practical world of fen-edge farming. Explore the abbey’s surviving fabric before turning to the tools, buildings and memories of rural life; each part adds context to the other and to the landscape around Waterbeach.