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Burnham Norton Friary was a Carmelite (White Friars) friary near Burnham Market in Norfolk England. It is now a ruin.The friary was founded by Sir William Calthorp and Sir Ralph Hemenhale in 1241 the first Carmelite monastery to be founded following the expulsion of the order from Mount Carmel in Sinai in 1238. The theologian monk Robert Bale was prior of Burnham Norton for a time until his death in 1503.
