Audio segment dated 1961, from the BBC program “Voice of the People,” is titled “York’s Hermit on 30 Years of Solitude.” The BBC interviewer speaks (about 6 min.) with :
“Brother Walter Wilman, a religious recluse who has spent the past 30 years living in a tiny cell adjoined to the Church of All Saints in York.”
The “tiny cell” is what was historically called an “anchorhold.”