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The Tomb (and Heart) of Thomas Hardy – St Michael’s Church, Dorset

Thomas Hardy was a world-renowned writer with deep connections to Dorset, although his books were set in the fictional county of Wessex, inhabited by the rural country folk he’d grown up with. And while his ashes may lie in Westminster… Continue Reading →

More Than A War Poet – Siegfried Sassoon’s Grave, Somerset, UK

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eyeWho cheer when soldier lads march by,Sneak home and pray you’ll never knowThe hell where youth and laughter go.” Suicide in Trenches, Siegfried Sassoon You’ll find the Siegfried Sassoon’s grave in the lovely small Somerset… Continue Reading →

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