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Hardy's Cottage

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The small thatch-and-cob cottage, where the writer was born in 1840, was built by his grandfather and is little altered since that time. From here Thomas Hardy would make his daily 6-mi walk to school in Dorchester. Among other things, you can see the desk at which the author completed Far from the Madding Crowd. Access is on foot only, via a woodland walk, or country lane from the parking lot.

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  • Address: ½ mi south of Blandford Rd. (A35), Higher Bockhampton, DT2 8QJ | Map It
  • Phone: 01305/262366
  • Cost: £4.75
  • Hours: Mid-Mar.--Oct., Wed.--Sun. and holiday Mon. 11--5 or dusk
  • Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
  • Location: Dorchester
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