Walking tour around Hardy’s Casterbridge (Dorchester) and Fordington (Durnover)reciting poetry and prose of this great writer and discovering the places and buildings that inspired him to write The Mayor of Cassterbridge , guided by Mark Damon Chutter, Chairman and Academic Director of the Thomas Hardy Society. The tour will finish with an afternoon cream tea at the Old Tea House.

The tour will finish with an afternoon cream tea at The Old Tea House.

Meet at the Town Pump opposite the Corn Exchange at 11.00

N.B Dogs Welcome, Walking Boots Recommended

Tickets £12

Please book tickets here: Dorchester Literary Festival

Cream tea £10.00 cash payable at the restaurant.

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