![]() ![]() In Thomas Hardy: A Biography (1982), Hardy expert Michael Millgate suggests the small area of heath beside Hardy's birthplace at Upper Bockhampton as the origin of Egdon Heath, but Hardy added to it areas near Puddletown, Bovington, and Winfrith. The valley of the River Frome, scene of much of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, marks the southern boundary of the heath. Hardy located the Dorsetshire heath in his maps, the end-papers for editions of his work published in his lifetime, and in The Return of the Native, as an amalgam of scattered areas of moorland chiefly east of Dorchester and north-west of Wareham, north of the Dorchester-Wareham road and south of the Dorchester-Wimborne road. ![]() ![]() One of the Rainbarrows, Duddle Heath, part of Hardy's Egdon Heath Real-world origins ![]()
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