A May Day scene.

Outside a Dorset cottage about 1900.

This young woman wears the 'bright hued neckerchief' and bonnet which Hardy says was disappearing in 1883.

A young woman dressed up for church.

A milkmaid wearing a scarf rather than a bonnet so that she can get close to the cows to milk them. All the men, and some of the women, when milking, dug their forheads into the cows and gazed into the pail. But a few- mainly younger ones- rested their heads sideways' Tess of the D'Ubervilles.

Milking in a framyard at West Stafford in the 1890s. This is in the Valley of the Great Daries, and may be the prototype for Talbothayes in Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Haymaking at Combe Down Fram, Beaminster in 1912.

Steam threshing tackle at work.

This gran house may be the prototype for Alec's mansion.

The Acorn Inn, Evershot in the 1890s, which Tess avoided when she passed through the village on her walk to Beaminster to see Angel's parents, breakfasting at a cottage by the church instead.