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| | Thomas Hardy's Wessex: The Evolution of Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | It is advisable also to state here, in response to inquiries from readers interested in landscape, prehistoric antiquities, and especially old English architecture, that the description of these backgrounds has been done from the real —- that is to say, has something real for its basis, however illusively treated. |
 | | Many features of the first two kinds have been given under their existing names; for instance, the Vale of Blackmoor or Blackmore, Hambledon Hill, Bulbarrow, Nettlecombe Tout, Dogbury Hill, High Stoy, Bubb-Down Hill, The Devil's Kitchen, Cross in Hand, Long-Ash Lane, Benvill Lane, Giant's Hill, Crimmercrock Lane, and Stonehenge. |
 | | The rivers Froom, or Frome, and Stour, are, of course, well known as such. |
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