This walk links the Kingston Maurward Estate, on which Hardy was raised, with Max Gate, the home he built from his literary successes.

Hardy loved walking these routes, and later wrote their features into the journeys of his characters: the bridge where Fanny Robin collapsed on her way to Casterbridge workhouse, the church of the Mellstock quire and the water meadows where Tess met Angel. Can you spot any others?

There is a choice of two routes – a shorter one (1.6 miles) or an alternative one via Grey’s Bridge (2.7 miles).