Friday 2nd August Shaftesbury (Shaston)
Fri, 02 Aug
|Top o' Town Coach & Car Park
Shaftesbury (Shaston) (Jude the Obscure) – Rod Drew. Coach departs Top O’ Town Car Park at 13.30.
Time & Location
02 Aug 2024, 13:30 – 17:30
Top o' Town Coach & Car Park, Poundbury Rd, Dorchester DT1 1XT
Guests
About the event
Friday 2nd August
Shaftesbury (Shaston) (Jude the Obscure) – Lead by Rod Drew.
Coach departs from Top o' Town Car Park 13.30 for a walk in the literary footsteps of Hardy's Jude Fawley, cousin Sue and her husband Richard Phillotson, AND English Kings - Alfred the Great, Edward the Martyr and King Cnut. Walk around Saxon Shaston - Dorset's highest hilltop town. 'a breezy and whimsical spot ... a churchyard ... nearer to heaven than the steeple AND ... beer more plentiful than water .. .' (JO). Circular one mile walk on 90% flat hard surfaces; laced with Hardy's poems and prose. Private indoor space if weather very wet, courtesy of "The Grosvenor Arms" - "The Duke Arms" of the novel.