Site of Possible Hermitage 500m South of Alcock's Arbour, Haselor.

Site of Possible Hermitage 500m South of Alcock's Arbour, Haselor

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Description of this historic site

The possible site of a Medieval hermitage is suggested by documentary evidence. The site is located 500m south of Alcock's Arbour.

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Notes about this historic site

1 The S boundary of the parish at this point is the long ridge called Grove Hill. Near a spring called Caldwell in Grove Hill was the Hermitage which Ralph Boteler gave some time before 1158 to Alcester Abbey, confirmed to them as the Hermitage of Caldwell by Henry II, Edward III and Henry VI.
2 Similar siting evidence with additional information that the site is 500 yards to the SE of Alcocks Arbour in the direction of Exhall Lodge.
3 The direction line given in reference 2 is slightly W of S and if Turner meant SW for SE there is the head of a stream approximately 500m in that direction at SP1156. At the above grid reference is a spring, possibly the Caldwell.