Stourcastle
Or Sturminster Newton
This was where Thomas and Emma lived for two years in a semi-detached villa not far from the river Stour which supplied power to the Mill. Often they would take a boat out on the river. Later, Hardy was to refer to their time there as ‘A Two Year Idyll’.
A pleasant little market town to the east of Blackmoor Vale - Vale of the Little Dairies in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ but it was in the Vale of the Great Dairies that Tess met Angel Clare whilst working at Talbothays Dairy.
A pleasant little market town to the east of Blackmoor Vale -
This is the Mill on the river Stour at Sturminster Newton. The Minster in the name of the town comes from the fact that there used to be a priory here.