The Chalk Walk, Casterbridge. Source of photograph: The Mayor of Casterbridgein the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 72.

Chalk Walk, an avenue on the town walls [in the area now called "Top o' the Town"], 'leading to an angle where the North and West escarpments met.' From this walk a footpath leads down into the Bath and Bristol Road. Henchard and Farfrae walked here.

[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].

References

Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Story of a Man of Character. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.

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