Summer Lodge is right in the heart of the pretty rolling hills of Hardy country, but also, fantastically ... home of the Earls of Ilchester and parts of it were designed by Thomas Hardy himself, ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...

At the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a monument to Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. The Admiral is shown in Roman armour reclining on a sarcophagus and at his feet are putto weeping beside an ...