Hi Richard Although not exactly 1763 the 1891 Ordnance Survey map shows The Hermitage, next to Hermitage Farm The current location of a building called the Hermitage is B78 1HS but I can't say if its the same building as 1763, probably not but appears to be in the right place If you go to www.old-maps.co.uk Select Search and enter the co-ordinates 425100 302400 it should take you straight there There is a paragraph mentioning it on British History online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42679 "Half a mile west of the church on the road to Tamworth The Hermitage probably marks the site of 'the chapel built above St. Edith's well', which was given to the nuns by William Savage. (fn. 249) The stone chapel was still intact in Dugdale's time and had then in its windows figures of two ladies, one of the Herthill family, the other with a mantle of the arms of Swinfen, (fn. 250) but its history appears to be a blank." Also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_The_Hermitage,_near_Polesworth_%28stained_glass%29.jpg Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I have a (possible) ancestor who ,when buried in 1763, was recorded as >being from the Hermitage in Polesworth. I have looked on Google maps and >there seems little there at present, does anyone have any information on >what was there in the mid 1700s? > > Richard

----- Original Message ---- From: Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 23 January, 2010 3:47:08 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] POLESWORTH HERMITAGE Hi Richard Although not exactly 1763 the 1891 Ordnance Survey map shows The Hermitage, next to Hermitage Farm The current location of a building called the Hermitage is B78 1HS but I can't say if its the same building as 1763, probably not but appears to be in the right place If you go to www.old-maps.co.uk Select Search and enter the co-ordinates 425100 302400 it should take you straight there There is a paragraph mentioning it on British History online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42679 "Half a mile west of the church on the road to Tamworth The Hermitage probably marks the site of 'the chapel built above St. Edith's well', which was given to the nuns by William Savage. (fn. 249) The stone chapel was still intact in Dugdale's time and had then in its windows figures of two ladies, one of the Herthill family, the other with a mantle of the arms of Swinfen, (fn. 250) but its history appears to be a blank." Also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_The_Hermitage,_near_Polesworth_%28stained_glass%29.jpg Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I have a (possible) ancestor who ,when buried in 1763, was recorded as >being from the Hermitage in Polesworth. I have looked on Google maps and >there seems little there at present, does anyone have any information on >what was there in the mid 1700s? > > Richard List archives are at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message