Markton Village (Dunster Village). 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 page 188.
"Markton, which in the novel is a village near Stancy Castle, was evidently drawn from Dunster Village, near which stands to-day [1912] the castle of the same name. Most of the action in the story takes place in and around Dunster. Near the centre of the exceptionally wide main street of the village stands the old Yarn Market, an octagonal wqooden building with wide overhanging eaves and light little dormer-windows. An atmosphere of mediævalism pervades the town; and we can freely conjecture from its present appearance what it must have been like two or three centuries back in time" [Added by PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. A Laodicean, A Story of To-day. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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