The felt porch will be rebuilt with a corrugated iron roof seen in the author's drawings The porch at Thomas Hardy's cottage is set to be taken down and rebuilt to its original design. The timber and ...

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The curious might wonder how a cottage for sale at North Fawley came by its name. But the question is easily answered, for Jude Cottage is mentioned in “Jude the Obscure”, the last novel written by ...

1 From the car park, walk back along the entry lane. Don’t take the ‘Hardy’s Cottage’ signed path into right trees, or ‘Visitor Centre’ path. Continue to the T-junction with fields opposite. Turn ...

Plans to turn the birthplace of Thomas Hardy into a holiday cottage have been dropped after fans of the Dorset author spoke out against them. The National Trust, which owns the property at Higher ...

The unwavering gaze of Thomas Hardy looks out from a hilltop, affording the Victorian writer - or, rather, a statue of him - a sweeping view of the town he immortalized as Casterbridge and the rustic ...

VISITORS are being offered a taste of the past at the birthplace of Dorset’s most famous literary son, Thomas Hardy. The National Trust team at Hardy’s Cottage at Higher Bockhampton will be taking on ...

The porch at Thomas Hardy's cottage is set to be taken down and rebuilt to its original design. The timber and felt porch at the National Trust property in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset has been found ...