 It is likely that the house was reformed as community of nuns at some point in the 8th or 9th centuries, as by the formation of the Benedictine priory in 1100 AD there was a thriving cult of St Æbbe at the site.The house appears to have moved from its original site at St Abb's Head to its present location around this time.St Æbbe the Younger is a semi-mythological abbess of Coldingham.