OVER THE HILLS, BEYOND THE RAINBOW
BEYOND the rainbow is Fairyland, but no one has ever penetrated to that
country, save in dreams, to which nothing is impossible. There is also a
Rainbow-land in Dorsetshire, certainly not impossible of achievement, but
still a district of which no one knows anything, saving only those who
live in it, and those sturdy fellows, the carriers, the Marco Polos and
Livingstones of this age and country, who every week or so travel from it
to the nearest market-town, and back again. The carriers are men of
strange speech and dress. Although sturdy, they move slowly both in body
and mind; and their tilt-carts are as slow as themselves, and as dusty
and travel-worn as the caravans of any African expedition. The Rainbow
country of Dorset is, in fact, a country innocent of railways. It is
comprised within a rough circle made by tracing a course from Bere Regis
to Piddletrenthide, Cerne Abbas, Minterne Magna, Holnest, Sherborne,
Milborne Port, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, and Blandford, and is not
only in parts extremely hilly, but includes Bulbarrow, one of the highest
hills in Dorsetshire, 927 feet above sea-level, and Nettlecombe Tout;
among a fine diversified array of lesser eminences. There is thus some
considerable difficulty in travelling out of it, and a very widespread
disinclination to penetrate into what may, not without considerable
warranty, be termed its “wilds.”
[Picture: Bingham’s Melcombe]
Wise men, who study maps, and from the tracks of watercourses deduce
easier, or at any rate, rather less arduous, routes, may find a means of
winning to this Rainbow country by turning off the Piddletown and Bere
Regis road at Burlestone, and thence making along the slight valley of
the Chesil Bourne or Divelish stream. The small village of Dewlish on
the map points to the amazing colonial energy of the Roman, for here, in
a district that even we moderns are accustomed to think remote, was found
a fine Roman pavement, many years ago. In another two miles and a half
the valley closes in, and the neighbourhood of those big brothers,
Bulbarrow and Nettlecombe Tout, is evident from their smaller kindred, on
either hand.
Here, under the shelter of the everlasting hills, and in a “lew” warm
hollow surrounded by benignant trees that lovingly shut it in, is
Bingham’s Melcombe. A little pebbly brook, the Chesil Bourne, prattles
down the combe, sheep-bells sound from the hillsides, cattle low in the
meadows, and rooks scold and gibber, or lazily caw, in over-arching elms;
otherwise, all is still, for much more than even the rustic scenes of Mr.
Hardy’s especially farming story, Bingham’s Melcombe is “far from the
madding crowd,” and there is nothing of it but a farmstead, the tiny
church, and the little gem of an ancient manor-house. For all that
Bingham’s Melcombe is so insignificant, it has sent out at least one
distinguished man. Fluellen boasted that there were “good men porn at
Monmouth,” and here was born that Sir Richard Bingham who earns the
praise of Fuller, as being “a brave soldier and _fortis et felix_ in all
his undertakings.” He lies, as a brave soldier should, but all brave
soldiers cannot, in Westminster Abbey. The Binghams of Bingham’s
Melcombe came from a younger son of the Binghams of Sutton Bingham in
Somersetshire, and early allied themselves with prominent families. The
ducally crowned lion rampant of the Turbervilles quartered on their
ancestral shield owes its place there to the marriage of Robert Bingham,
about the reign of Henry III., or Edward I., with the daughter and
heiress of Robert Turberville.
These long-descended Binghams maintained their hold upon this lovely old
home of theirs from the middle of the thirteenth century until recently.
Now it has passed into other hands. A member of the family, Canon
Bingham, was the original of the “Parson Tringham,” the learned
antiquary, who, in the opening pages of _Tess of the D’Urbervilles_, so
indiscreetly informs old John Durbeyfield, the haggler, of his
distinguished ancestry.
The manor-house of Bingham’s Melcombe, within its courtyard, is a perfect
example of a sixteenth-century country residence. The courtyard, entered
by a gatehouse, discloses stone-gabled buildings at the sides, with the
highly carved and decorated projecting gable of the hall in front;
displaying with a wealth of mantling the Bingham coat of arms, the whole
overgrown with trailing roses.
A wild, chalky country, very knobbly and with constant hills and dales,
leads away to westward, past Melcombe Horsey, to the hamlet and starved
hillside farms of Plush, where flints abound, water is scarce, and
farmers are obliged to depend largely upon the “dew-ponds” made on the
arid downs. Here is Dole’s Ash farm, the original of “Flintcomb Ash,”
the “starve-acre place” where Tess toiled among the other weariful hands
in the great swede-fields, “a hundred odd acres in one patch,” with not a
tree in sight: Rainbow-land is not all fertile and roseate. The farm, as
Mr. Hardy describes it, is situated “above stony lanchets—the outcrop of
siliceous veins in the chalk formation, composed of myriads of loose
white flints in bulbous, cusped, and phallic shapes,” and is at the other
extreme from the fertility and sheltered beauty of the Valley of the
Frome, the “Vale of Great Dairies.”
Very different from the forbidding westerly range from Bingham’s Melcombe
is the country immediately to the east. There the village of Milton
Abbas lies enfolded between the richly wooded hills, where the little
Mill Bourne rises, at the foot of an alarming but wonderfully picturesque
descent; and the woodland shade comes to the back door of every cottage.
Milton Abbas is a remarkable place, and owes its long lines of regularly
spaced cottages, all of the same design, to the autocratic whim of Joseph
Damer, Baron Milton and first Earl of Dorchester, who (then a commoner)
purchased the large and beautiful estate in 1752, and, demolishing the
old village, which rose humbly on the outskirts of the magnificent abbey,
rebuilt it, a mile away, in 1786. Milton Abbas is, indeed, the precursor
of many recent “model” villages, and typical of the highhanded ways of
the eighteenth-century landed gentry, who could not endure the sight of a
cottage from the windows of their mansions; and so forthwith, in the
manner of Eastern potentates, whisked whole villages and populations away
from between the wind and their gentility. Each cottage is built
four-square, with thatched roof and equidistant doors and windows, all in
the Doll’s House or Noah’s Ark order of architecture, and there is scarce
a pin to choose between any of them. Half-way down the street is the
almshouse, and opposite is the church, and from their presence it will be
seen that Lord Dorchester’s village-transplanting was complete and highly
methodical. Now that time has weathered his model village, and the
chestnut trees planted between the cottages have grown up, Milton Abbas
is a not unpleasing curiosity.
[Picture: Milton Abbas]
But Milton Park, beyond the village, contains the greatest surprise, in
the almost perfect condition of the surviving abbey church, rising in all
the stately bulk and beautiful elaboration of a cathedral; beside the
great mansion built for Lord Dorchester in 1771 by Sir William Chambers,
familiar to Londoners as the architect of Somerset House.
[Picture: Milton Abbas, an early “Model” Village]
That explorer of this Wessex unknown country, this Land Beyond the
Rainbow, who, setting forth uninstructed in what he shall find, comes all
unwittingly upon this generally unheard-of abbey, is greatly to be
envied, for it is to him as much of a surprise as though its existence
had never been breathed beyond the rim of the hills down in whose hollows
it lies hid; and to him falls the exquisite pleasure of what is nothing
less than a discovery. Coming into the park, all unsuspectingly, the
abbey church is disclosed against a wooded background of hills,
strikingly like the first glimpse of Wells Cathedral, underneath the
Mendips.
Milton Abbey, the “Middleton Abbey” of _The Woodlanders_, was founded so
early as A.D. 933, by Athelstan, and in thirty years from that date
became a Benedictine monastery. Nothing, however, of that early time has
survived, and the great building we now see belongs to the period between
1322 and 1492, when it was gradually rebuilt, after having been struck by
lightning and wholly destroyed in 1309. But the noble building rising so
beautifully from the gravel drives and trim lawns of this park is but a
completed portion of an intended design. It consists of choir, tower,
and north and south transepts, and extends a total length of 132 feet.
Had not the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 put an end to this
lovely retreat of the Benedictine fraternity, a nave would have been
added. To Sir John Tregonwell, King’s Proctor in the divorce of Henry
VIII. and Katherine of Aragon, fell what may reasonably be called this
fine piece of “spoil”; for the price of one thousand pounds at which he
bought the monkish estates of Milton Abbas can scarce be regarded as
adequate purchase money. Coming at last into the hands of Joseph Damer,
the domestic offices of the monastery, which had until then survived in
almost perfect condition, were with one exception utterly destroyed, and
the existing mansion built in a bastard “Gothic” style, as understood by
Chambers. The sole exception is the grand Abbot’s Hall, enshrined within
that eighteenth-century building, and entered from the farther side of
the great quadrangle. Now in use as a drawing-room, there is probably no
more stately room of that description in existence. It has the combined
interest and beauty of size, loftiness and exquisite workmanship in stone
and carved wood, with antiquity.
[Picture: Abbot Milton’s Rebus, Milton Abbey] The abbey church stands
immediately to the south of the mansion, separated from it only by lawns
and a drive, and is used as a chapel by the present owner of the estate,
a nephew of the late Baron Hambro, who restored it at great cost under
the professional advice of that arch-restorer, Sir Gilbert Scott. The
solitude, the size and beauty of the interior, are very impressive. Here
is a place of worship like a cathedral, used for the prayers of a private
household, and if you can by any means manage to forget the grotesque
disproportion of ancient size and magnificence to modern use, you will
feel very reverent indeed.
[Picture: Milton Abbey]
There is a monument here to that fortunate and successful time-server,
Sir John Tregonwell, who so neatly trimmed the sails of his public
conduct in those times of quick-change, between the reigns of Henry VIII.
and Elizabeth, that, although a Roman Catholic, he managed to enrich
himself at the expense of the old religion’s misfortunes, and to die at
peace with all men, although in the possession of property belonging to
others. There is also a most exquisitely sculptured marble monument by
Carlini to Lady Milton, who died in 1775. It represents her in the
costume of that period, with her husband bending anxiously over her. A
quaint little piece of Gothic fancy will be seen on one of the walls, in
the shape of the sculptured rebus of one Abbot William Middleton, with
the Arabic date, 1514, and the device of a mill on a tun, or barrel.
Thus did the strenuous minds of the Middle Ages unbend to childish
fancies and puns in stone.
[Picture: Turnworth House]
A sign of the times may be noted, in the restoration and re-dedication of
the long-desecrated Chapel of St. Catherine, on the hilltop to the east
of the abbey. When the monastery was dissolved, the chapel of course
fell out of use, and so remained until recently. It had in turn been
used as a pigeon-house, a labourer’s cottage, a carpenter’s shop, and a
lumber-room, and was falling into complete decay when Mr. Everard Hambro
in 1903 decided to restore it. The varied Saxon, Norman, and
Perpendicular architecture was accordingly repaired, and the building
reconsecrated on St. Catherine’s night of the same year.
Through Winterborne Houghton, and Winterborne Stickland, two of the
eleven Dorsetshire Winterbornes, named from a chalk stream that flows
into the Stour at Sturminster Marshall, we come to another _Woodlanders_
landmark, Turnworth House, the “Great Hintock House,” where Mrs.
Charmond, fascinator of the surgeon Fitzpiers, lived. It is situated
just as in the tale, in a deep and lonely dell:
“To describe it as standing in a hollow would not express the
situation of the manor-house; it stood in a hole. But the hole was
full of beauty. From the spot which Grace had reached a stone could
easily have been thrown over or into the birds’-nested chimneys of
the mansion. Its walls were surmounted by a battlemented parapet;
but the grey lead roofs were quite visible behind it, with their
gutters, laps, rolls, and skylights. . . . The front of the house
was an ordinary manorial presentation of Elizabethan windows,
mullioned and hooded, worked in rich snuff-coloured freestone from
local quarries. . . . Above the house was a dense plantation, the
roots of whose trees were above the level of the chimneys.”
From Turnworth the way out of Rainbow-land by way of Durweston,
Stourpaine, and Blandford is easy: a _facilis descensus_, as well in
spirit as in the matter of gradients, for thus you come out of the
untravelled and the unknown into the well-worn tracks and intimate life
of every day.
INDEX.
ABBOT’S ANN, 23
“Abbot’s Cernel,” Cerne Abbas, 31–38, 116, 170, 199–203, 206, 302
Abbotsbury, 84, 235, 236
“Aldbrickham,” Reading, 2
Aldershot, “Quartershot,” 2
“Alfredston,” Wantage, 2
Andover, 23
“Anglebury,” Wareham, 10, 38, 86, 111, 113–122, 138, 192
_Anna_, _Lady Baxby_, 189
Anton, River, 23, 24
Athelhampton, 54
* * * * *
BANKES FAMILY, 37, 106, 108, 111
_Barbara of the House of Grebe_, 43, 298, 299
Barnes, Reverend William, 65
Basingstoke, “Stoke-Barehills,” 2, 3
Batcombe, 171, 172
Bathsheba’s Farm, 57–59
Beaminster, “Emminster,” 38, 170, 244, 245
Bere Heath, 50, 128, 130
Bere Regis, “Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill,” 54, 126, 127, 132–146, 163, 302
Berkshire, “North Wessex,” 2
Bincombe, 211, 248–250
Bindon Abbey, 122
Bindon Abbey Mill, 123
Bingham’s Melcombe, 303–306
Blackmore, or Blackmoor, Vale of, 36, 38, 39, 65, 169, 191, 195, 197,
198, 288, 291, 292
Blandford Forum, “Shottsford Forum,” 39, 42–47, 138, 282, 302
Bloody Assize, 83
Bloxworth, 140
Bockhampton, Lower, 157, 160
Bockhampton, Upper, 157–160
Boscastle, “Castle Boterel,” 6, 7
Bourne, River, 259
Bournemouth, “Sandborne,” 31, 88, 257–262
Bow and Arrow Castle, 229
Bredy, River, 237
Bridport, “Port Bredy,” 82, 231, 237, 240–244
Brit, River, 237
Broadwey, 212
Browning, Robert, 37,
Bryan’s Piddle, 145, 163
Bryanstone, 46
“Budmouth,” Weymouth, 71, 200, 207, 209, 210, 212–221, 225, 226, 232, 246
* * * * *
“CASTERBRIDGE,” Dorchester, 26, 35, 38, 47, 58, 61–83, 116, 138, 148,
149, 153, 168, 199, 206, 207, 215
“Castle Boterel,” Boscastle, 6, 7
“Castle Royal,” Windsor, 2
Castleton, 186
Cerne Abbas, “Abbot’s Cernel,” 31, 38, 116, 170, 199–203, 206, 302
Cerne, River, 205
“Chalk Newton,” Maiden Newton, 168
Chamberlain’s Bridge, 130, 132
Charborough Park, 50, 123, 136, 192, 278, 279
Charminster, 79, 168, 205
Chesil Beach, 224, 231, 240
Chesil Bourn, 304
“Christminster,” Oxford, 3, 5, 6
_Clavinium_, 207, 246
“Cliff without a Name,” 8
Colyton House, 78
“Conjuring Minterne,” 172
Coombe Bissett, 35, 40
Corfe Castle, “Corvsgate Castle,” 87, 92, 93, 97–113, 121, 133, 138, 277
Corfe Mullen, 277, 278
Cornwall, “Nether Wessex,” 6, 292
“Corvsgate Castle,” 87, 92, 93, 97–113, 121, 133, 138, 277
Cranborne Chase, 35
Cross-in-Hand, 170
* * * * *
_Desperate Remedies_, 60
Devonshire, “Lower Wessex,” 2, 6
_Distracted Preacher_, _The_, 252, 254
Dogbury, 191, 197
Dole’s Ash Farm, “Flintcomb Ash,” 170, 305
Dorchester, “Casterbridge,” 26, 35, 38, 47, 58, 61–83, 116, 138, 148,
149, 153, 168, 199, 206, 207, 215
Dorsetshire, “South Wessex,” 2, 38, 39, 44, 134, 135, 138, 149, 291, 292
Drax family, 193, 194
Dungeon Hill, 195
D’Urbervilles, the, 37, 124, 126 132, 170
_Durnovaria_, 62, 80, 207
“Durnover,” Fordington, 61–63, 148, 149
* * * * *
EAST STOKE, 122
Eastbury Park, 40
“Egdon Heath,” 128–130, 132, 161–167, 254, 258
“Emminster,” Beaminster, 38, 170, 244, 245
Encombe, “Enkworth Court,” 94–96
“Endelstow,” 8
“Enkworth Court,” 94–96
Erle-Drax, J. S. W. Sawbridge, Esq., M.P. 192, 278, 279
Evershot, “Evershead,” 169, 172, 198
* * * * *
“FALLS PARK,” MELLS PARK, 172–175
_Far from the Madding Crowd_, 43, 48, 53, 56–59, 156, 236, 254
Fawley Magna, “Marygreen,” 2, 4, 94
_Fellow Townsmen_, 237, 241, 243, 244
_Fiddler of the Reels_, _The_, 150, 161
_First Countess of Wessex_, _The_, 31, 172–175, 237
“Flintcomb Ash,” Dole’s Ash Farm, 170, 305
“Flychett,” Lytchett Minster, 268
_For Conscience’ Sake_, 177
Fordington, “Durnover,” 61–63, 148, 149
Fortune’s Well, “Street of Wells,” 224, 225, 227, 231
Frome, River, 38, 62, 115, 117, 118, 121, 123, 124, 156, 157, 161, 163,
205, 306
* * * * *
“GAYMEAD,” Theale, 2
“Giant of Cerne,” 203
Glydepath Lane, 76, 78
Goathorn, 114
Godmanstone, 205
“Gray’s Bridge,” 70
“Great Hintock,” Minterne Magna, 39, 168, 191, 198, 302
“Great Hintock House,” Turnworth House, 311, 312
_Group of Noble Dames_, _A_, 14, 31, 43, 172–176, 189, 205, 237, 297–299
* * * * *
HAMPSHIRE, “Upper Wessex,” 2, 257
Hamworthy, 268
_Hand of Ethelberta_, _The_, 86, 90, 93, 94, 98, 268, 269
Hangman’s Cottage, Dorchester, 76, 77
Hardy, Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman, 66, 232, 233
Hardy, Thomas, birthplace of, 158–160
Hardy, Thomas, residence of, 148
“Havenpool,” Poole, 88, 107–109, 111, 140, 261–268
_Hearts Insurgent_, 4
Heedless William’s Pond, 160
“High Place Hall,” 78
High Stoy, 39, 191, 197
“Higher Crowstairs,” 75, 199
Holnest, 123, 191–194, 302
Horner family, 173–175
Horton, 50, 298
Horton Inn, “Lornton Inn,” 297–299
Hurst, 163
* * * * *
ILCHESTER, Earls of, 172–175
Ilsington Woods, 159
_Interlopers at the Knap_, 168
“Ivell,” Yeovil, 169, 176–178
* * * * *
JORDAN HILL, 246
_Jude the Obscure_, 4, 5, 29, 30, 31, 151, 294, 295
* * * * *
“KENNETBRIDGE,” NEWBURY, 2
“King’s Hintock Court,” Melbury Park, 172–176
King’s Stag Bridge, 195
“Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill,” Bere Regis, 54, 126, 127, 132–146, 163, 302
Kingston, 92, 93, 94, 97
Kingston House, “Knapwater House,” 60, 150
Kingston Lacy, 106
“Knapwater House,” Kingston House, 60, 150
“Knollsea,” Swanage, 84–92, 97, 111, 257, 264
* * * * *
_Lady Mottisfont_, 14
_Lady Penelope_, _The_, 205
Lainston, 19, 20
Langton Matravers, 92
Launceston, “St. Launce’s,” 8
Lidden, River, 195
Little Ann, 23
“Little Hintock,” Melbury Osmund, 176, 198
“Little Jack Horner,” 174
Lobcombe Corner, 26
Lodmoor Marsh, 246
“Long Ash Lane,” 168, 169
Long Burton, 191, 192
“Long Piddle,” Piddletrenthide, 57
“Lornton Inn,” Horton Inn, 297–299
Lower Walterstone Farm, 57–59
“Lucetta’s house,” 78
Lulworth Cove, “Lullstead,” 139, 254, 255–257
Lulworth West, 254
Lytchett Minster, “Flychett,” 268
* * * * *
MAIDEN CASTLE, 208
Maiden Newton, “Chalk Newton,” 168
Marnhull, “Marlott,” 36, 285, 288, 290
Martinstown, or Winterborne St. Martin, 153
“Marygreen,” Fawley Magna, 2, 4, 94
Maumbury, 71, 72
Max Gate, 63, 148
_Mayor of Casterbridge_, _The_, 23, 25, 26, 63–80, 149
_Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion_, _The_, 248–250,
Melbury Osmund, “Little Hintock,” 176, 198
Melbury Park, “King’s Hintock Court,” 172–176
Melbury Sampford, 172–176
“Melchester,” Salisbury, 16, 26–28, 31, 35, 36, 187
Melcombe Regis, 66, 210, 215–217, 220, 221
Mells Park, “Falls Park,” 172–175
“Mellstock,” Stinsford, 61, 149–151
Middlemarsh, 194
“Middleton Abbey,” Milton Abbas, 38, 306–311
Milborne Port, 302
Milborne St. Andrew, “Millpond St. Jude’s,” 48–50
Milton Abbas, “Middleton Abbey,” 38, 306–311
Minterne Magna, “Great Hintock,” 39, 168, 191, 198, 302
“Monmouth Ash,” 299–301
Monmouth, Duke of, 83, 121, 140, 299–301
_Mottisfont_, _Lady_, 14
* * * * *
NETHER CERNE, 205
“Nether Mynton,” Owermoigne, 252, 253
Newbury, “Kennetbridge,” 2
* * * * *
OBSERVATORY, The, Horton, 298
Old Sarum, 21, 28, 179
_On the Western Circuit_, 29
Osmington, 250
“Overcombe,” Sutton Poyntz, 246, 247, 250
Owermoigne, “Nether Mynton,” 252, 253
Oxford, “Christminster,” 3, 5, 6
“Oxwell Hall,” Poxwell Manor, 250, 251
* * * * *
_Pair of Blue Eyes_, _A_, 6, 7, 8
_Penelope_, _The Lady_, 205
Pennsylvania Castle, “Sylvania Castle,” 229
Pentridge, “Trantridge,” 36, 37
Piddle, River, 54, 57, 117, 121, 132, 144
Piddleford, or Fiddleford, 285
Piddletown, “Weatherbury,” 53–58, 157
Piddletrenthide, “Long Piddle,” 57, 302
Plush, 170
Poole, “Havenpool,” 88, 107, 108, 109, 111, 140, 261–268
Poole Harbour, 39, 114, 117, 131
“Port Bredy,” Bridport, 82, 231, 237, 240–244
Portisham, 232–234
Portland Bill, 224
Portland, Isle of, “Isle of Slingers,” 209, 210, 214, 222–231, 240
Poundbury, 79, 206
Poxwell, 250, 290
Poxwell Manor, “Oxwell Hall,” 250, 251
Preston, 246, 250
Pulham, 195
“Pummery,” 206
Purbeck, Isle of, 85, 87–89, 97, 115
* * * * *
“QUARTERSHOT,” Aldershot, 2
* * * * *
RADIPOLE, 213
Reading, “Aldbrickham,” 2
_Return of the Native_, _The_, 114, 128, 129, 161
Revels Inn, 199
Rye Hill, Bere Regis, 131, 132
Ryme Intrinseca, 176, 177
* * * * *
ST. JULIOT’S, “ENDELSTOW,” 8
“St. Launce’s,” Launceston, 8
Salisbury, “Melchester,” 16, 26–28, 31, 35, 36, 187
Salisbury Plain, 31
“Sandbourne,” Bournemouth, 31, 88, 257–262
Sandsfoot Castle, 222, 223
“Serpent,” The, 155
Shaftesbury, “Shaston,” 39, 277, 290, 291–296
Shapwick, 280, 281, 282, 283
“Shapwick Wheeloffs,” 281
“Shaston,” Shaftesbury, 39, 277, 290, 291–296
Sherborne, “Sherton Abbas,” 38, 39, 178–191
Sherborne Castle, 184, 186–190
“Sherton Abbas,” 38, 39, 178–191
Shillingstone, 282–285
“Shottsford Forum,” Blandford Forum, 39, 42–47, 75, 138, 282, 302
“Slingers, Isle of,” Isle of Portland, 209, 210, 214, 221–231, 240
_Some Crusted Characters_, 70
Somersetshire, “Outer Wessex,” 2, 176
Sparsholt, 20
Stalbridge, 302
“Stickleford,” Tincleton, 157, 160, 163
Stinsford, “Mellstock,” 61, 149–151
Stoborough, 115
Stockbridge, 16, 21–23, 26
“Stoke-Barehills,” Basingstoke, 2, 3
Stonehenge, 31–34
Stour, River, 38, 277, 278, 280, 282, 283, 288
“Stourcastle,” Sturminster Newton, 39, 286–288
Strangways family, 173–175
“Street of Wells,” 224, 225, 227, 231
Sturminster Marshall, 38, 277, 278, 280
Sturminster Newton, “Stourcastle,” 39, 286–288
Sutton Poyntz, “Overcombe,” 246, 247, 250
Swanage, “Knollsea,” 84–92, 97, 111, 257, 264
“Sylvania Castle,” Pennsylvania Castle, 229
* * * * *
TARENT ABBEY, 134, 145
Tarrant Hinton, 40
Templecombe, 38, 39
Ten Hatches, 70
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 12, 17, 31, 32, 36, 38, 122–126, 143, 147,
161, 168, 170, 199, 244, 257, 258, 285, 288, 289, 305
Theale, “Gaymead,” 2
_Three Strangers_, _The_, 75, 199
Tincleton, “Stickleford,” 157, 160, 163
_To Please his Wife_, 262, 265
_Tragedy of Two Ambitions_, 177
“Trantridge,” Pentridge, 36, 37
Trebarrow Sands, “Trebarwith Strand,” 7
“Troy Town,” 59
_Trumpet Major_, _The_, 70, 218, 222, 230, 232, 246–248, 250, 253
Turberville, Dr. D’Albigny, 30, 146
Turberville, George, 48, 146
Turberville, John, 123
Turberville, Thomas, 146
Turberville, family, The, 126, 134, 140–144, 146, 304
Turnworth House, “Great Hintock House,” 311, 312
_Two on a Tower_, 49, 53, 115, 270, 275, 278, 280, 298, 299
* * * * *
_Under the Greenwood Tree_, 59, 149, 150
Upper Bockhampton, 63
Upwey, 211, 212
* * * * *
“VALE OF GREAT DAIRIES,” 38, 156, 161, 306
Vale of Little Dairies, 38, 39
“Vale of White Hart,” 196
Village Choirs, 151–155
_Vindogladia_, 270
* * * * *
WALLOP, LITTLE (OR MIDDLE), 26
Wantage, “Alfredston,” 2
“Warborne,” 270
Wareham, “Anglebury,” 10, 38, 86, 111, 113–122, 138, 192
“Warm’ell Cross,” 252
“Weatherbury,” Piddletown, 53–58, 157
Weatherbury Castle, 50, 51, 80
Weeke, 18
_Well Beloved_, _The_, 224, 226, 229, 230
Welland House, 50, 278, 279
“Wellbridge,” Woolbridge, 124, 127
“Wells, the Street of,” Fortune’s Well, 224, 225, 227, 231
Wessex, 1, 9, 14, 21, 148, 253
Wessex, Lower, Devonshire, 2, 6
Wessex, Mid, Wiltshire, 2, 292
Wessex, Nether, Cornwall, 292
Wessex, North, Berkshire, 2
Wessex, Outer, Somersetshire, 2, 176
Wessex, South, Dorsetshire, 2, 38, 39, 44, 134, 135, 138, 249, 291, 292
Wessex, Upper, Hampshire, 2, 257
West Bay, 237, 238, 239, 241
West Stafford, 157
Wey, River, 212
Weyhill, “Weydon Priors,” 23–25
Weyhill Fair, 24, 25
“Weydon Priors,” Weyhill, 23–25
Weymouth, “Budmouth,” 71, 200, 207, 209, 210, 212, 221, 225, 226, 232,
246
Whitcomb, 65
Willapark Point, 8
Wilts, 2
Wimborne Minster, “Warborne,” 106, 138, 270–276
Wincanton, 39
Winchester, “Wintoncester,” 9–17, 21, 148
Windsor “Castle Royal,” 2
Winterborne Came, 65
Winterborne Monkton, 208, 210
Winterborne St. Martin, or Martinstown, 153
Winterborne Whitchurch, 47, 48, 146
Winterslow, 16
“Winterslow Hut,” 27
“Wintoncester,” Winchester, 9–17, 21, 148
“Wishing Well,” Upwey, 211–213
_Withered Arm_, _The_, 74
Wolveton House, 168, 205, 207
Woodbury Hill, Bere Regis, 138, 140
_Woodlanders_, _The_, 43, 176, 286, 191, 195, 197, 198, 308, 312
Woodlands, 298, 299
Woodyates Inn, 35, 36, 38, 40
Wool, 38, 123, 126, 130
Woolbridge, “Wellbridge,” 124, 127
Woolbridge House, 122, 123, 125
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“YALBURY HILL,” YELLOWHAM HILL, 59
Yellowham Woods, “Yalbury Great Wood,” 59, 150
Yeo, River, 176, 178, 186, 191
Yeovil, “Ivell,” 169, 176–178
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_Printed by Hazell_, _Watson & Viney_, _Ld._, _London and Aylesbury_.
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FOOTNOTES
{174} In text the genealogy is: Thomas Horner of Mells _m._ 1713
Susannah, daughter of Thomas Strangeways, of Melbury, co. Dorset, born
1690, died 1758: they had issue Elizabeth Horner (born 1723, died 1792).
Elizabeth Horner _m._ 1736 Sir Stephen Fox, afterwards 1st Earl of
Ilchester, etc. Born 1706, Died 1776.—DP.