| Description | At Old Hall Green is the Roman Catholic College of St Edmund. In 1772, Bishop Talbot bought the Hermitage with 20 acres of land there from John Hale Wortham, and in 1787 he purchased the Old Hall Estate, which he already held on a lease, from Sir George Jennings of Greenwich. These properties were added to the school. The estate was increased by the purchase of Riggory's Farm in 1815, and of the Old Hall Farm estate, purchased from the representatives of Ambrose Proctor by Bishop Poynter in 1826. |