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The real life Mayor of Casterbridge has spoken out against a proposed 4,000 home development on the very land Thomas Hardy wrote of in his famous novel.<br />
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The proposed site is a stone's throw from the birthplace of the Victorian author and the village where he went to school.<br />
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In Hardy's famous 1886 novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, he described in detail the verdant landscape that is under threat.<br />
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Hardy wrote of the immediate mix of 'land and down' and described the town of Casterbridge - Dorchester - as 'like a chessboard on a green tablecloth'.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: JanetHewitt/BNPS

Pictured: Janet Hewitt

The real life Mayor of Casterbridge has spoken out against a proposed 4,000 home development on the very land Thomas Hardy wrote of in his famous novel.

The proposed site is a stone's throw from the birthplace of the Victorian author and the village where he went to school.

In Hardy's famous 1886 novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, he described in detail the verdant landscape that is under threat.

Hardy wrote of the immediate mix of 'land and down' and described the town of Casterbridge - Dorchester - as 'like a chessboard on a green tablecloth'.