Travel to Dorset to visit Hardy’s Cottage. Hardy was born here in 1840, the cottage was built of cob and thatch by his great-grandfather and has been little altered since the family left. It was from here that he wrote several of his early short stories, poetry and novels including 'Under the Greenwood Tree' and 'Far from the Madding Crowd'. We tour the cottage and then take a short stroll in Thorncombe Woods next door. This is an ancient woodland and nature reserve that opens out onto heathland and the beginning of Hardy's Egdon Heath. The historic market town of Dorchester nearby was used as the fictional base for his novel “The Mayor of Casterbridge”.
Enjoy some free time before we continue to the Torquay where we stay at the hotel where Agatha Christie spent her honeymoon. (B/DW) Stay: The Grand Hotel, Torquay.
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