id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 46839 Heath, Sidney The Heart of Wessex .txt text/plain 14000 537 66 immortalized by Thomas Hardy, in his great romances of rural life, greater number of scenes lie in the portion called South Dorset, of the North Country, it was left to Thomas Hardy to reveal Dorset to the modern traveller has retained a portion of its old-time custom and Hardy, whose Dorchester home is but a short distance away, describes crossroads, a short walk past the little hamlet of Troy Town, and we On the outskirts of the village a little stone-roofed house, almost Portisham is one of the most charming of Dorset's villages; the church town, whose marine suburb of West Bay contains a useful little harbour It is one of hundreds of old manor houses in Dorset, and For the purposes of his story Mr. Hardy has placed the house considerably nearer to "Overcombe" (Sutton) The little old-world village of Corfe has also many architectural ./cache/46839.txt ./txt/46839.txt