PRN 45548 The hermitage, originally in the grounds of the current rectory was a thatched building. It was built as a folly. {1}{2} In the late eighteenth century Wolley Jolland was the vicar of Louth, between 1780 and 1831. The vicarage, hermitage and the grounds were probably completed in the late 1780s. The grounds consisted of a vicarage house, which stood approximately where the current rectory stands, a hermitage, shower bath, ruins, lawns, hermit's well, kitchen pump, obelisk and monument. Shortly after Wolley Jolland died the new vicar, E. R. Mantel had a new vicarage built. In 1791 visitors to the hermitage, Colonel Bertie and Hon. John Byng suggested to Wolley Jolland that he should dress his gardener as a hermit and let him inhabit the hermitage when he had guests to show round.{3}