(Hardy’s names in italics)1.
South Wessex (Dorset)
Abbot’s Beach, Abbotsea: Abbotsbury
Abbot’s Cernel: Cerne Abbas
Alderworth: Brickyard Cottage
Black’on: Blackdown Hill
Bollard Head: Ballard Point
Broad Sidlinch: Sydling St Nicholas
Budmouth Regis: Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
Casterbridge: Dorchester
Catknoll: Chetnole
Chaldon: East Chaldon
Chalk Newton: Maiden Newton
Chene Manor: Canford School
Cloton: Netherbury
Corvsgate: Corfe Ca.stle
Creston: Preston
Damer’s Wood: Came Wood
Dead Man’s Bay: West Bay
East Egdon: Affpuddle
East Quarriers: Easton
Elm-Cranlynch: Corfe Mullen
Emminster: Beaminster
Enkworth House: Encombe House
Estminster: Yetminster
Evershead: Evershot
Faringdon Ruin: Winterbourne Farringdon church
Flintcomb-Ash: Plush
Flytchett: Lytchett Minster
Froom-Everard: West Stafford
Greenhill: Woodbury Hill
Haggardon Hill: Eggardon Hill
Havenpool: Poole
Higher Crowstairs: Hog Hill
Higher Jirton: Higher Forston
Hintock House: Turnworth House
Holmstoke: Hethfelton
Isle of Slingers: Portland
Kingsbere: Bere Regis
Kingscreech: Steeple
King’s Hintock: Melbury Osmund
Knollingwood Hall: Wimborne St. Giles House
Knollsea: Swanage
Little Enkworth: Kingston
Liule Welland: Roger’s Hill Farm
Lornton Copse: Horton Wood
Lornton Inn: Horton Inn
Lower Longpuddle: Piddlehinton (also Puddletown)
Lower Mellstock: Lower Bockhampton
Lulstead Cove: Lulworth Cove
Mai Dun: Maiden Castle
Marshwood: Middlemarsh
Melstock: Stinsford
Middleton Abbey: Milton Abbas
Moreford Rise: a hill near Moreton
Nether Moynton: Owermoigne
Newland Buckton: Buckland Newton
Nuttlebury: Hazelbury Bryan
Overcombe: Sutton Poyntz
Owlscombe: Batcombe
Oxwell Hall: Poxwell Manor
Port Bredy: Bridport
Po’sham: Portisham
Pummery: Poundbury
Revellers’ Inn: Revels Inn Farm
Ringsworth Shore: Ringstead Bay
Roy Town: Troy Town
Sandbourne: Bournemouth
Scrimpton: Frampton
Shottsfard Forum: Blandford Forum
Springham: Warmwell
Stagfoot Lane: Hartfoot Lane (now Melcombe Bingham)
Stickleford: Tincleton
Street of Wells: Fortuneswell
Sylvania Castle: Pennsylvania Castle
Tolchurch: Tolpuddle
Upper Longpuddle: Piddletrenthide
Valley of the Great Dairies: the Frome Valley
Vale of Little Dairies: Blackmoor Vale
Warborne: Wimborne Minster
Weatherbury: Puddletown
Welland House: Charborough House
Wellbridge: Wool
Wyndway House: Upton House (site only)
Yalbury Wood: Yellowham Wood
Yewsholt Lodge: Farrs House
Upper Wessex (pre-1974 Hampshire)
Bramshurst Manor: Moyles Court
Chasehorough: Cranborne
Deansleigh Park: Broadlands
Farnfield: Farnsborough
Fernell Hall: Embley House
Ingpen Beacon: Inkpen Beacon
Melchester: Salisbury
Oozewood: Ringwood
Quartershot: Alder shot
Rookington Park: Hurn Court
Sandbourne: Bournemouth
Solentsea: Southsea
Stoke Barehills: Basingstoke
Weydon Priors: Weyhill
Wintoncester: Winchester
North Wessex (pre-1974 Berkshire)
Aldbrickham: Reading
Alfredston: Wantage
Christminster: Oxford
Cresscombe: Letcombe Bassett
Ingpen Beacon: Inkpen Beacon
Kennetbridge: Newbury
Lumsdon: Cumnor
Marygreen: Fawley
Mid-Wessex (Wiltshire)
Devil’s Door: Devil’s Den
Falls: Mells
Ingpen Beacon: Inkpen Beacon
Leddenton: Gillingham
Manor Court: Rushmore
Marlbury: Marlborough
Melchester: Salisbury
Old Melchester: Old Sarum
Shaston: Shaftesbury
Stourton Tower: Alfred’s Tower
Weydon Priors: Weyhill
Outer Wessex (Pre-1974 Somerset)
Camelot: Cadbury Hill
Clyfton Horseleigh: Clifton Maybank
Dunkery Tor: Dunkery Beacon
Estminster: Yetminster
Falls: Mells
Fountall: Wells
Glaston: Glastonbury
Ivelchester: Ilchester
lvell: Yeovil
Leddenton: Gillingham
Marlott: Mamhull
Markton: Dunster
Millpool: Milborne Port
Mountislope House: Montacute House
Narroboume: West Coker
Sherton Abbas: Sherborne
Stapleford: Stalbridge
Stourton Tower: Alfred’s Tower
Toneborough: Taunton
Lower Wessex and Off-Wessex (Devon and Cornwall
Barwith Strand: Trebarwith Strand
Castle Noterel: Boscastle
Camelton: Camelford
Cliff Martin: Coombe Martin
Dundagel: Tintagel
Dunkery Tor: Dunkery Beacon
Exonbury: Exeter
Exon Moor: Exmoor
Idmouth: Sidmouth
Isles of Lyonesse: Isles of Scilly
Markton: Dunster
Pen Zephyr: Penzance
Port Bredy: Bridport
Redrutin: Redruth
Rou’tor Town: Bodmin
St. Launce’s: Launceston
Silverthorne: Silverton
Stratleigh: Bude
Targan Bay: Pentargon Bay
Trufal: Truro
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All place names identifications from:
Kay-Robinson, Denys. The Landscape of Thomas Hardy. Exeter, England: Webb & Bower, 1984.
and
Lea, Hermann. The Hardy Guides: Volumes One and Two. Hammondsworth, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1986. (adapted from Lea, Hermann. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1913.)