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A gorgeous old rectory which featured in a Thomas Hardy Novel, for sale in one of Dorset’s most deliciously-named villages

Melbury Bubb House is up for sale in a tiny village in Dorset. Penny Churchill takes a look.

Is there a more pleasing village name in England than ‘Melbury Bubb’? Just the sound of it seems to bring a smile to the face and a glow to the soul; where else but England could such a place exist?

Thought to have been the inspiration for Great Hintock in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders, this village is a charming little spot. And we mean little quite literally: it had…

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