Description of Swanage—Tilly Whim—Thomas Hardy's "Knollsea"—The Quarry Folk—A Mediæval Trades Guild—Old Dorset Family Names—Marrying the Land—High Street at Swanage—Quaint Houses and a Mill-Pond—St Mary's Church—Newton Manor—Studland—The Agglestone—Langton Matravers—Kingston—Enckworth Court—Corfe—The Greyhound Hotel—An Elizabethan Manor-House—Corfe Church—A Brave Good Chest—Curfew—Churchwardens and the Degrees of Inebriation—Reward for killing a Fox—Lonely Kingdom of an Inn—Wareham—Wild Life on the Frome—Wareham once a Port—The "Bloody Bank"—Peter of Pomfret—Meaning of the Name Wareham—Bishop Cating—St Mary's Church—"Black Bear" and "Red Lion"—Chapel of St Martin
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MY ADVENTURE WITH A MERRY ROGUE |
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My Sentimentalism over old Inns, old Ale and old Drinking Vessels—Morcombe Lake—"Dorset Knobs"—The Lonely Singer—The Leather Black Jack—Sleeping with Miss Green—Lyme Regis—The Curiosity Shop—"The Spirit of the Artist and the Soul of a Rogue"—We are all Rogues! |
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THE DEVON AND DORSET BORDERLAND |
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Stirring Events—Duke of Monmouth—New Inn—Youth beckons with Magic Poignancy—Smuggling Days—Buddle River Manners—The Cobb—Granny's Teeth—Buddle Bridge—Town Hall—Henry Fielding—Church of St Michael—Broad Street—The Master Smith of Lyme—M'Neill Whistler—Old Songs—Beware of Late Shooting—Axminster—George Inn—Musbury—Colyton—Knightly Poles—"Little Choke-Bone"—The Courtenays—A Rare British Flower—Lambert's Castle—Charmouth—Charles II. |
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RAMBLES AROUND BRIDPORT |
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Toller of the Pigs—Noble Windows—Whyford Eagle—A Curious Tympanum—A Remarkable Oven—Rampisham—"The Tiger's Head"—Cross-in-Hand—Alec D'Urberville—Batcombe—Conjuring Minterne—The Conjurer of Bygone Days—Hardy's Story, "The Withered Arm"—Minterne's Tomb—Kipling and a Sussex "Conjurer"—Bridport—Charles II.—Hardy's Fellow Townsmen—"Greyhound Hotel"—A Lover of Horses—"Bucky Doo"—"The Bull" and Thomas Hardy—Footpath to West Bay—The Chesil Beach—The "Anchor Inn" at Seatown |
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ROUND ABOUT BEAMINSTER |
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Toller of the Pigs—Noble Windows—Whyford Eagle—A Curious Tympanum—A Remarkable Oven—Rampisham—"The Tiger's Head"—Cross-in-Hand—Alec D'Urberville—Batcombe—Conjuring Minterne—The Conjurer of Bygone Days—Hardy's Story, "The Withered Arm"—Minterne's Tomb—Kipling and a Sussex "Conjurer"—Bridport—Charles II.—Hardy's Fellow Townsmen—"Greyhound Hotel"—A Lover of Horses—"Bucky Doo"—"The Bull" and Thomas Hardy—Footpath to West Bay—The Chesil Beach—The "Anchor Inn" at Seatown |
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A GLOSSARY OF WEST-COUNTRY PROVINCIALISMS |
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Chosen in part from Notes and Queries; Akermann's Wiltshire Glossary; The Peasant Speech of Devon, by Sarah Hewett; Crossing's Folk Rhymes of Devon; The Saxon-English, by W. Barnes; The Works of Thomas Hardy; and many Sources not generally known |
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Birthplace of Thomas Hardy |
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Stocks at Tollard Royal |
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The Green Dragon at Barford St Martin |
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The Giant, Cerne Abbas |
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Bingham's Melcombe |
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Hurdle-making at Bere Regis |
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Woolbridge House |
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Corfe Castle, 1865 |
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The Famous Tillywhim Caves, 1860 |
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Corfe Castle, 1860 |
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The Lonely Singer |
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The River Buddle, Lyme Regis |
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The Master Smith of Lyme Regis |
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Drake Memorial at Musbury |
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THOMAS HARDY'S
DORSET
CHAPTER I DORSET FOLK AND DORSET WAYS