which was once frequented by renowned literary figures including Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. If you’re after a picture-perfect chocolate box cottage, you can’t ...

With the arrival of William Barnes, the house is understood to have become the favourite retreat of many notable British literary figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Siegfried ...

Barnes was friends with fellow Dorset bigwig Thomas Hardy, who would sometimes work in the house, which helped established it as a must-visit for any passing literary titan. It is this that makes ...

The Grade II listed building was where Thomas Hardy trained as an architect in the 19th Century A cafe building destroyed in a fire last month has collapsed further, a council said. About 50 ...

The porch at Thomas Hardy's cottage is set to be taken down and rebuilt to its original design. The timber and felt porch at the National Trust property in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset has been ...

Thomas was born on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands on 13th September 1666, son of John Le Hardy, solicitor general of the island. As well as his naval service he was also Member of ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...