Lets Visit Thomas Hardys Cottage
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
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Thomas Hardys Cottage, was the Birthplace of Thomas Hardy and is owned by the National Trust.
Photography with a Nikon D300 & Nikon AF-S DX 16-85mm F3.5/5.6 G ED VR
Videography with a Sony AX53 Camcorder or GoPro Hero 8 Black
Filmed during our June 2024 caravan holiday
Thomas Hardys cottage is located on Cuckoo lane Higher BockHampton Nr Dorchester Dorset, and was the birthplace of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy was born in the cottage in 1840 and lived here until the age of 34, and wrote 2 novels whilst living here. There is a visitor centre where you can buy snacks and drinks and some of Hardys novels. The garden and cottage are free to enter for national trust members, but if you want to go inside the cottage, you must book in advance, we were luckly as we visited on a quiet day so we were able to join a tour. Parking is nearby in the Thorncombe wood car park and is a short walk to the visitor centre, parking isn't free, your vehicle number plate is read on entry and at the time of our visit we £1 per hour.
Love the video, thanks for sharing
Lovely video, thank you for the footage of the forest! So peaceful. Here's to hoping that you visit the other Thomas Hardy's hometown or monument! (Not sure if the parking is free there.)
What a picturesque place! Lovely - I didn't get an alert for this video, but found it when I got the alert for Corfe Castle, that I'm about to watch now 👍👍👍
Thomas hardy was my great grand father 😅 who was a lovely man and I have read all his books😊
It is called Higher Brockhampton.
Hi Jon. Hope you and Karen are doing well mate. Great video enjoyed your walk around the cottage. Really nice set off images at the end. Take care mate. Shawn.
That was great Jon.
Hi Jon, hope you are both well, Great video it looks like a lovely place to visit although a shame about the parking, isn’t that the point of having a membership. You have probably got the same strap as I have on my camera bag, I think it’s the material they use, it seems the longer I have mine the shorter the strap gets. Definitely a design flaw, I was going to write a letter of complaint but my hands are still sticky from my last doughnut 😂 Hope Karen didn’t do too much damage to what ever she fell on, might want to lay off the 5 drink warm up before going to the pub 😂love the photos.
Hi Jon. Helena and I went there years back, only to find it closed! We went to his grave as well as far I remember. I’ve read all of his books too! My biggest problem with them was just how much some of them rambled for chapter after chapter, contemplating the grass and nothing much happened. Loved the biggies though, like Tess, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure which I read three times. Lovely part of the country. The photos were really nice.
Hardy wrote novels mainly for money; his first love was for poetry; and what a great poet he was - with great poetic descriptive passages even in the prose as well. He could not help himself. One of our greatest literary men, timeless - darkly pessimistic about human nature too and our place in the universe.
Hey Jon. Hope you both are well. Looks a nice place for a good walk. Nice set of images. Poor Karren going a.r.s.e over. How long before you stopped laughing did it take to help?? Stay safe.