Wellbridge House. Source of photograph: Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 276.
It is to Wellbridge House, the idea of which is takenfrom Woolbridge House, the old Elizabethan house, formerly one of the ancestral homes of the D'Urbervilles, that Angel Clare and Tess go after their marriage. The manor-house is situated near Woolbridge Station, clearly seen from the train as it enters the station of Wool. In this house may be found the two old mural portraits of Tess's ancestors mentioned in the novel. The legend of the D'Urberville coach is also attached to this house
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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