Sherton Abbas
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. Facing page 40.
"Sherton Abbas, a fascinating old town full of quaint bits of architecture and mediaeval buildings, is an approximation of Sherborne. The market-place in the centre of the town is whewre Winterborne is pictured, fixed to the spot close by his apple-tree, unable to advance to meet Miss Melbury. The town has many interesting buildings, among them the school, attached to which is the museum in which is preserved the noted megalosaurus, whose upper and lower jaws are more perfect than any other specimen extant" [These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders in The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse with Prefaces and Notes in Twenty-One Volumes. Vol. VI. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1920.
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