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Route outline for walk do108:

Higher Bockhampton  -  Stinsford  -  Lower Bockhampton  -  Kingston Maurward  -  River Frome  -  Duddle Heath  -  Castle Hill  -  Beacon Corner  -  Beacon Hill  -  Puddletown Forest  -  Hardy's Cottage (Thomas Hardy's Birthplace)  -  Higher Bockhampton

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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

The author Thomas Hardy's ashes are buried in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey - except for his heart which was removed before cremation and interred in Stinsford Churchyard.

There are two Thomas Hardy's associated with Dorset - the famous poet & novelist who wrote 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and Lord Nelson's captain aboard HMS Victory.

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