| Hermitage |
| This is one of those forgotten villages,
that when you ask for directions to it people just stare at you and then
scratch their heads in bewilderment!! Where? they ask, and you repeat
the question and sometimes they may remember it and give instruction on
how to get there. Treves once
described it as a "Rip Van Winkle village lying at the foot of the
grassy slopes of High Stoy" which towers 860 feet above sea level
and it is 4 miles from Cerne Abbas. There was once a hermitage here that
was owned by the Order of St Augustine but a round 1460 it was deserted.
In 1583 there was a landslip that caused three acres of land to slip an
block the road to Cerne Abbas, and Treve commented in his
dry sense of humour style, 'Since this date nothing in Hermitage has
moved and it is a question now if even an earthquake would rouse it.' |
