Inn at Flychett (Peter's Finger Inn, Lytchett Minster). Source of photograph: The Hand of Ethelberta in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing title-page.
Inn at Flychett, situated in that 'trumpery small bit of a village' where Sol Chickerell and the Hon. Edgar Mountclere rest their their horses, is akin to the inn called 'Peter's Finger' at Lytchett Minster. Frontispiece. Henchard's last journey in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Ch. XLV, takes him through this area (the inn is called "Peter's Finger" to this day), and he dies nearby, in a deserted hovel, tended by Abel Whittle.
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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