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Blackmore Vale, Dorset, Sturminster Newton, Sturminster Rovers, Sunday Football, Team Gryphon, The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
Sunday 1st November 2015 ko 10.30
Blackmore Vale Sunday League
STURMINSTER ROVERS 9 (Chaffey 8 49 86 87, Sprake 14 28 37 Sweatman 15 Meadowcroft 47)
TEAM GRYPHON 4 (Farrant 45 61 89 Boon 82)
Att 9
Entry FREE
No Programme
If you’re visiting Dorset it is more or less impossible to avoid Thomas Hardy’s influence. Take Sturminster Newton for example; you you stroll into the War Memorial Recreation Park, and in one corner is a house lived in by Hardy from 1876-78. He wrote “The Return of the Native” whilst there, and Sturminster Newton is immortalised in “Tess of the d’Urbervilles, ” as Stourcastle. The River Stour gurgles its way along at one end of the park. Continue reading