"Marygreen" in Jude. Where Jude grew up; named in honour of Hardy's grandmother, Mary, who was brought up in Fawley (from where Jude got his surname). Not a very attractive village, just off the Ridgeway, formerly in Berkshire.
"Above all, the original church, hump-backed, wood-turreted, and quaintly hipped, had been taken down, and either cracked up into heaps of road-metal in the lane, or utilized as pig-sty walls, garden seats, guard-stones to fences, and rockeries in the flower-beds of the neighbourhood. In place of it a tall new building of modern Gothic design, unfamiliar to English eyes, had been erected on a new piece of ground by a certain obliterator of historic records who had run down from London and back in a day".
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