Stancy Castle, Markton (Dunster Village and Castle)

Source of photograph: A Laodicean, A Story of To-day in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing title page

Stancy Castle was probably suggested by Dunster Castle, which is situated on the north Somerset coast. Though serving as the model for Stancy Castle, the author supplied, either from imagination or from reminiscences of other architectural piles, certain features and details not to be found in Dunster Castle as it appears to-day [1912]. From the north of the little town of Dunster--called Markton in the novel--the castle occupies a very commanding position, towering above the houses.

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