PRN 41760 Salem or Sailholme was a grange with a chapel belonging to Bury St Edmund's Abbey. {1} There were medieval salterns located on the island of Salem, which was in a loop of the River Steeping near the present bridge, where Wainfleet Hall now stands. The whole island belonged to the monks of Bury St Edmund and the earliest reference to the gift of these salterns to the abbey is in 1150-60, but there are many other twelfth century references to this island. {2} In 1150-60 Hugh son of Pincion gave St Edmund a toft and a saltern at Wainfleet. Matthew de Praieres gave the island of Seilholm to the monks of Bury in about 1165. He also gave them the right to build on the island and to take in his fen as much turf as they needed for burning, and by 1184 the monks had built a chapel to St Edmund there. By 1256 there were no monks in residence, and a century later it was ruinous. However, efforts to have it restored, after a series of miracles, seem to have succeeded, and it was still in existence in 1527. {3}{4}