Hermitage

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Hermitage may refer to the following:

• Hermitage (religious retreat), a hermit's dwelling place, a place of religious retreat
• Hermitage (grape), a synonym for several other varieties of grape

[edit] People

• Robbyn Hermitage, a female badminton player from Canada

[edit] Places

In Australia:

• The Hermitage (Australia), a school in Geelong, Victoria
• Upper Hermitage, South Australia, an outer northeastern rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia

In Canada:

• Hermitage-Sandyville, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small town
• The Hermitage (Ontario), a large residence in Ancaster

In France:

• Hermitage AOC, a wine-growing appellation in northern Rhône on a hill with an old hermit's chapel
• Crozes-Hermitage AOC, a wine-growing appellation in northern Rhône in the area surrounding the Hermitage hill
• Crozes-Hermitage, a commune of the Drôme département
• L'Hermitage, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine département, in the Bretagne région
• L'Hermitage-Lorge, a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor département, in the Bretagne région
• Tain-l'Hermitage, a town and commune of the Drôme department in southern France

In Great Britain:

• Hermitage, Berkshire, a village in England near Newbury
• Hermitage, Dorset, a hamlet in England, near Sherborne
• Hermitage, Dumfries & Galloway, a village in Scotland
• The Hermitage (Scotland), a National Trust for Scotland site
  • The Hermitage and Ossian's Hall of Mirrors, at the above site
• Hermitage, West Sussex, a village in England
• Hermitage Castle, a castle in the Scottish Borders
• Hermitage Green, a hamlet near the village of Winwick in Cheshire
• Hermitage Primary School, Helensburgh, Scotland
• Hermitage Rooms, gallery and museum space in London
• Warkworth Hermitage, in Northumberland, England
• Hermitage railway station, on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway
• Hermitage Manor, a small manor house in Warwickshire

In Russia:

• Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg
  • Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings
  • Hermitage Theatre, a theatre near the museum
• Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund investing in Russia
• Moscow Hermitage Garden, a park in the central part of Moscow

In the United States:

• Hermitage, Arkansas, a town in Arkansas
  • Hermitage High School (Arkansas), a high school in the above town
• Little portion hermitage, a Catholic based community in Berryville, Arkansas
• New Camaldoli Hermitage, a rural Camaldoli Benedictine hermitage in the Santa Lucia Mountains of Big Sur, California
• Hermitage-Whitney Historic District, a U.S. historic district in Englewood, Florida
• Hermitage, Louisiana, a community in southeastern Pointe Coupee Parish
• Hermitage, Missouri, a town in Missouri
  • Hermitage High School (Missouri), a high school in the above town
• Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, in Paradise, Nevada
• The Hermitage (New Jersey), a state-owned historic site in Ho-Ho-Kus
• Hermitage, Pennsylvania, a city in Mercer County
• Hermitage, Tennessee, a section of Nashville
• The Hermitage (Tennessee), the former residence of Andrew Jackson near Nashville
  • Hermitage Arboretum, located on the grounds of the above residence
• Hermitage (Music City Star station), a station on Nashville's regional rail line, the Music City Star
• Hermitage High School (Virginia), Richmond, Virginia
• Hermitage Road Historic District, a Northside neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia

Elsewhere:

• Hermitage Amsterdam, a dependency of the Hermitage Museum
• Hermitage of Camaldoli, a monastery near Naples, Campania, Italy
• Hermitage Island, a small island lying south west of Port Sud-Est in Rodrigues
• Hermitage, Seychelles, a town in the island nation of Seychelles
• Mount Cook Village, New Zealand, sometimes referred to as The Hermitage
• Nyoko-dō Hermitage, Nagasaki, Japan

In fiction:

• The Hermitage, the two-story house that Aelita and her father used to live in, in Code Lyoko

[edit] Ships

• USS Hermitage (AP-54), a troop transport launched in 1925 as the Italian liner SS Conte Biancamano; interned, renamed, and commissioned in U.S. Navy, 1942; returned to the Italy in 1947
• USS Hermitage (LSD-34), a Thomaston-class dock landing ship launched in 1956; transferred to Brazilian Navy as Ceará (C-30) in 1989