This cottage, where Hardy wrote Far from the Madding Crowd, is the starting point for a 220-mile hike, the Hardy Way.
The last time I visited this cottage near Dorchester was with my mother, Kim Taplin, who died last year.
My mother wrote about the meandering trails from the novelist’s cottage, through countryside loaded with literary references – now I’m following in her footsteps.
Exploring the work of nearly 200 authors and artists, Kim shows the cultural importance of paths in connecting us to each other and to nature.
The writer Thomas Hardy grew up in the thatched cottage at the end of this track.
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