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West Dereham Abbey was an abbey in Norfolk England. St Mary’s Abbey West Dereham was founded in 1188 by Hubert Walter Dean of York at his birthplace. It was to be a daughter house of Welbeck Abbey Nottinghamshire for canons regular of the Premonstratensian order. The canons were to pray for the souls of the founder and his parents his brothers and sisters and all his relatives and friends.