Blooms-End

Source of photograph: The Woodlanders in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Frontispiece, facing title- page.

"'The commanding heights called "High-Stoy" and "Bubb-Down Hill" overlook the landscape in which Little Hintock is supposed to be hid.' Most of the action of 'The Woodlanders' takes place here or in the immediate neighbourhood. Hermitage may be regarded as typical of Little Hintock and Minterne as exemplified in Great Hintock. The Hintocks may be said to embrace Hermitage, Hillfield, Middlemarsh, Minterne, and Melbury Bubb, in the northern part of the County of Dorset" [These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].