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The small cob and thatch cottage where novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born in 1840. It was built by his great-grandfather and is little altered since. His early novels Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were written here.
 
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Close up view of Enkianthus Campanulatus
© NTPL / Jerry Harpur
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