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The real names of these villages
in Dorset, a county in the south of England, are
Shaftsbury and Marnhull. Hardy began to create the
fictional county of "Wessex" in Far From the Madding
Crow; and throughout all the Wessex novels the geography
is that of Dorset, Somerset,
Wiltshire, and Devon, though most of the
places were rename.
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