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Thomas Hardy's Dorset

Thomas Hardy's Dorset

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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

XI.   MY ADVENTURE WITH A MERRY ROGUE 191 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! XII.   THE DEVON AND DORSET BORDERLAND 207 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. XIII.   RAMBLES AROUND BRIDPORT 230 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 XIV.   ROUND ABOUT BEAMINSTER 244 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   A GLOSSARY OF WEST-COUNTRY PROVINCIALISMS 249 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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Birthplace of Thomas Hardy Frontispiece
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Stocks at Tollard Royal 34
The Green Dragon at Barford St Martin 38
The Giant, Cerne Abbas 92
Bingham's Melcombe 100
Hurdle-making at Bere Regis 126
Woolbridge House 136
Corfe Castle, 1865 160
The Famous Tillywhim Caves, 1860 170
Corfe Castle, 1860 176
The Lonely Singer 194
The River Buddle, Lyme Regis 202
The Master Smith of Lyme Regis 218
Drake Memorial at Musbury 222

THOMAS HARDY'S
DORSET

CHAPTER I DORSET FOLK AND DORSET WAYS

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