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Thomas Hardy was born in Hardy's Cottage in 1840 a small thatched cottage built by his great grandfather.
He wrote Tess of the D'Urbervilles in 1891. Jude the Obscure was published in 1895, and wrote ‘The Dynasists’ between 1904-8. From then until his death in 1928 he turned to poetry.
Max Gate, is where Thomas Hardy designed and lived in the house from 1885 until his death in 1928.
His body lies in Westminster Abbey, but his heart is buried in Stinsford churchyard (Mellstock) alongside some of his characters in ‘Friends Beyond’.
There are many places of interest to explore in 'Wessex' used for the home country of his characters - a partly real, partly dream-country, of central, southern and western England, and most of Hardy's stories are centred on "South Wessex" Indeed Thomas Hardy would still feel at home in the landscape, village street and market squares
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