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 found ...

Image caption, The centre was opened by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset, Angus Campbell (holding the Hardy's Birthplace sign) and is a joint partnership between Dorset County Council and the National ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. As comely as Thomas Hardy's dairy-maids may have been, the real beauty in his writing ...

This is the England of romantic imagination. It’s an England of small villages, grand manors and cottages with thatched roofs, a place of rolling green hills and tidy little farms where sheep graze ...

A beautiful Georgian mansion located in a village which inspired famous novelist Thomas Hardy is on sale for £3.25million. The Grade II listed former vicarage is situated on the edge of Buckland ...

WHETHER you fancy yourself as The Mayor Of Casterbridge or are just trying to keep your little Tess happy in the school holidays, Hardy country has a lot to offer, with its beautiful, undulating ...

Plans to turn the birthplace of Thomas Hardy into a holiday cottage have angered fans of the Dorset author. The National Trust, which owns the property at Higher Bockhampton, said it needed to ensure ...

The cottage where Thomas Hardy, one of the great English writers of the 19th century, grew up will be let out to visitors over the winter months so they can experience the lifestyle he grew up in, The ...

With the release of the latest film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd, the locations that inspired its famous writer will once again be seen on the big screen. Carey Mulligan, Matthias ...