Gardens at Max Gate
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Gardens at Max Gate
Image: © Marika Reinholds Taken: 2 Apr 2017
Author and poet Thomas Hardy designed and lived in Max Gate from 1885 until his death in 1928. He lived there with his first wife Emma Gifford, and then with his second wife Florence Dugdale. He wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure and The Mayor of Casterbridge, as well as much of his poetry at Max Gate. The house was left to the National Trust in 1940, by Hardy's sister Kate. The house contains a few pieces of Hardy's furniture; most had been disposed of after his death, although his study has been relocated to the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.708068
Longitude
-2.419996