Principal Towns and Villages in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'
Hardy's names
Real names
Chaseborough (Tess' hangout on Saturday nights)
Emminster (Angel's Home)
Evershead (trail to Emminster)
Flintcomb-Ash (hard work)
Greenhill
Kingsbere (site of the D'Uberville mansion)
Marlott (Tess' home)
Owlscombe (trail to Emminster)
Sandbourne (Tess killed Alec)
Trantridge (nearest village to Alec's home)
Valley of the Great Daries
Wellbridge (honeymoon mansion, Tess' grave)
Cranborne
Beaminster
Evershot
Plush
Woodbury Hill
Bere Regis
Marnhull
Batcombe
Bournemouth
Tranton
The Frome Valley
Wool
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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