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Did you know that Puddletown was Hardy’s model for Weatherbury in Far from the Madding Crowd (is it wrong to want the death sentence for anyone writing ...Maddening Crowd?)? Bathsheba’s farmhouse is strongly linked with Waterston Manor, a late 16th century structure though built on ground occupied by a house since at least Saxon times.

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Battle of Reading - 0871, Charles I arrests parliamentarians and starts civil war - 1642, Palace of Whitehall Burns - 1698, Preston North End Win 1st Football League - 1889, Donald Campbell killed trying to break own water speed record - 1967, 1st episode of Last of the Summer Wine - 1973, Peter Sutcliffe Admits he’s Yorkshire Ripper - 1981
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