Disclaimer
I've done my best throughout this site to give true information.
I took all these photos myself, so they are my intellectual property, so if you must rip them off at least credit me with the originals.
Likewise all original text is copyright (c) me 2000-2004. Feel free to print stuff off or copy it to your own computer for your own personal use; otherwise please ask my permission if you want to use it.
I take no responsibility for anything I get wrong, so if you turn up at completely the wrong place thinking it's a Hardy location - that's not my fault - although they're all correct to the best of my knowledge, obviously.
If you go to Bere Regis churchyard looking for Tess's grave, or you're at Puddletown church wondering where Gabriel is, you're confusing reality with fiction. Welcome to the club..... But seriously - any Hardy "location" is only really the place where he set an event, or which inspired an event. Practically all the people in Hardy's work are, after all, made up.
Where I've typed in the poetry they come from the Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy, Macmillan, Fourth Edition. In general you should never really trust e-texts if you want to do some serious academic stuff. Get the books, and make sure you know where you are. This applies to the stuff on my site and elsewhere. There are lots of links to better e-text sights in my "links" sections, but bear the above in mind wherever you go.