Hermitage Village Website

Welcome to Hermitage

Village Hall Funding
Hermitage Parish Council has received an application from the Village Hall Management Committee, for a grant of £250 000, for the building of the proposed new hall. This application will be discussed in the January meeting. Click here to view the application.

Thursday January 19th
at 7.30 pm
in The Adelaide Room, at the back of Holy Trinity Church

New Village Hall gets match funding from Greenham Common Trust
Greenham Common Trust have agreed to match any funds that the Village Hall have PLUS any contribution made by the Parish Council. The Village Hall have £140,000 to put towards this, and the Parish Council is setting the precept for 2012 on 19th January. Please write to or email the Parish Council to urge them to support the building of a new Village Hall with a grant that Greenham Common Trust will double. A Parish Council grant of £250,000 will mean we can build almost all of it with a real prospect of opening in 2013.

Burns Night
Hermitage Village Hall
Saturday 28th January at 7:30pm
Tickets £16 including 3 course meal and Scottish dancing
Contact 01635 200966 or any Village Hall Committee member for tickets

Grundon Proposed Incinerator.
Hermitage Parish Council will be holding a special meeting to discuss the planning application, no 11/02644.

on Tuesday January 31st
at 8.00 pm
in the Village Hall.


Hermitage Mobile Library
West Berks Mobile library stops in Hermitage on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Click here for the timetable to see where it stops near you....
Village Hall 100 Club January winners
1st 75 Ann Stenning
2nd Sally Lightowlers
3rd Tracey Adley

January Police Report

Newbury Young Musician of the Year competition 2012
Are you aged 15-19 years, playing at grade 8 standard?
If so you could be in with a chance to win £2000 and get to play with the Southern Sinfonia.....
Click here for more details

Grundon Incinerator
For the latest information click on the following links
Grundon site
WBAGI site

The village sits on the B4009, five miles north-east of Newbury in the heart of the North Wessex Downs, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and was once the home of the author D H Lawrence. For more about the history of Hermitage, click here.

We hope this site will provide access to a wide variety of information about Hermitage and its surroundings together with what is going on and how you can become involved in the activities and events that make Hermitage a thriving village community.

If there is anything you wish to contribute or see on this site, please click here to email your request.

Hermitage Data

Hermitage weather

Traffic information

Mobile library timetable for Hermitage

Aerial view

Office of National Statistics data for Hermitage

Office of National Statistics data for the Bucklebury Ward

Houses for sale in Hermitage

Local employment opportunities

Public transport

For more information on local schools, businesses, services and organisations, click here

Pictures of Hermitage
If you have any photographs of Hermitage you would like featured here or elsewhere on the website, please click here.