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Max Gate

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Max Gate
Max Gate
Alington Avenue
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2AB

Tel: 01305 262 538
Fax: 01305 250 978
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About Max Gate

Home of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy designed and lived in this house from 1885 till his death in 1928. Here he wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure and The Mayor of Casterbridge, as well as much of his poetry. The house contains several pieces of his furniture.



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