Wessex Walks: Weatherbury
Sun 29 Mar
|Outside The Blue Vinney
A Walk around Puddletown - Hardy's Weatherbury
Time & Location
29 Mar 2026, 11:00 – 13:00
Outside The Blue Vinney, 12 The Moor, Puddletown, Dorchester DT2 8TE, UK
Guests
About the event
Wessex Walks: Puddletown - Hardy's Weatherbury
Date: Sunday, 29th March 2026
Time: 11:00am to 1pm
Cost: Free to THS Members - £5 to Non-members
Meet: Outside the Blue Vinney Pub
Puddletown was both the closest village with a market to Thomas Hardy’s Higher Bockhampton home, and the place where so many of his uncles, aunts and cousins, both Hands and Hardys, lived. It was here that his grandfather, Thomas Hardy, married Mary Head and set out to start a new life at Higher Bockhampton in 1800. When in his poem The Roman Road Hardy recalls walking that ancient thoroughfare with his mother, his destination was Puddletown, and especially his Sparks and Antell cousins. As a young man recently returned from London it was his cousin Tryphena who lived and taught there who would have proved a particular attraction for him.
Tickets
PUDWLK Member
This walk around Puddletown is free for THS members
£0.00
PUDWLK Non-Member
This is your non-member ticket for the THS guided walk around Puddletown
£5.00
+£0.13 ticket service fee
Blue Vinny Lunch Reservation
This ticket reserves a lunch place at the Blue Vinny at 1.15pm
£0.00
Total
£0.00