Thomas Hardy statue in Dorchester
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Image: © Jaggery Taken: 22 Jun 2014
On the east side of The Grove, near the corner of High West Street. The inscription is THOMAS HARDY 1840-1928. The novelist was born in a hamlet near Dorchester and died in Dorchester. Although the places that appear in his novels exist, he gave many of them a fictional name. For example, Hardy's Casterbridge is Dorchester.