Description
Hermitage, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands 2 miles NE of Evershot station on the G.W.R., and 4 N by W of Cerne Abbas. Post town, Cerne, under Dorchester; money order and telegraph office, Evershot. Acreage, 756; population, 115. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £20. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good, and has a bell-turret; it was restored in 1889.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary is a very small Gothic edifice, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: the church was reseated throughout in 1889, and affords 120 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1712.
