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Hermitage Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Riby

Etymology

, cf. In a sequestered part of the park , is an hermitage appropriately fitted up 1842 White , Hermitage 1824 O, 1828 Bry, 1830Gre , Hermitage Plantation 1844LindDep 29 .