The Abbey Hamlet lies within the former grounds of the priory, and consists of five Grade II listed buildings that previously comprised Abbey Farm: the original farmhouse and four houses (Gilbertine House, St. Helen’s House, Semperingham House and St. Martin’s House) converted from the farm outbuildings. Two service trenches were monitored. One measuring 8.20m x 0.28m running east to west and another 3.40m x 2.0m running South to North. The trenches were excavated in preparation for a new sewage system from St. Martin’s House and Semperingham House to a soakaway in the adjacent field. The excavations revealed an undated, potentially large, linear feature, partially exposed in the soakaway pit. The similarities between the sterile fill of and its resemblance to that of the subsoil, suggests the infilling of the feature was due to alluvial deposition of sedimentary materials over time. Coupled with the geographical location of the Abbey to the River Idle, it is possible that this feature may have been a paleochannel that was associated with the river.Unfortunately, no dating evidence was retrieved from this feature. The rest of the monitoring programme exposed no further features of potential archaeological origin.