Higher Bockhampton

proper noun

A hamlet in Stinsford parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY7292).

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A hamlet in Stinsford parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY7292).

    [Thomas] Hardy, who died in 1928 and whose ashes are in Westminster Abbey, was born in nearby Higher Bockhampton in 1840, and his detached home is at the end of a row of cottages in a leafy lane not far from Yellowham Wood.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 364, about Stinsford
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