Bingham’s Melcombe in Dorset is a ‘real gem’, say agents, and is so quiet you won’t hear ‘a car door slamming’.
Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) was his first of many novels to be set in the fictional county of Wessex. A broader interpretation has taken the area to include all of South-West England, but, in some people’s imaginations, Wessex is Dorset. He referred to its landscapes time and again as a backdrop for his tales of love and tragedy….
