HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H28/98 4/20/98 "LOCATION OF MARYGREEN" ========================================================== X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:03:17 -0500 To: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu From: Donald ulin Subject: Marygreen What is the modern equivalent of Marygreen, and what county would it be in? There's a nice website that has lots of equivalents {http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/btomp/wessex.htm), but many of the towns from *Jude* are missing. Thanks, Don Ulin ========== Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:26:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Wilson To: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu Subject: Re: Marygreen Marygreen is based upon the village of Great Fawley in Berkshire Keith Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa 70 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 Telephone/Voice-Mail: (613) 562 5770; Fax: (613) 562-5990 e-mail: kgwilson@aix1.uottawa.ca ========== Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:21:23 -0400 To: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Marygreen The model for Marygreen was the small village of Fawley set in the hills south of Wantage, Berkshire. Marygreen is purportedly named after Hardy's paternal grandmother, Mary (plus the village "green"). Fawley has a Victorian Gothic church and according to Frank Pinion some of Hardy's ancestors were buried there. Best wishes, Rosemarie Morgan ========= From: enl090@abdn.ac.uk To: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu Subject: Re: Marygreen Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:34:10 +0100 (BST) Fawley (Marygreen) is certainly in Berkshire now, but only just. I seem to recall that it used to be in Oxfordshire but was moved during local government reorganization (probably in the 1970s). I've never found any Head graves in the old churchyard, and I don't think H found any when he looked. North Berkshire is horseracing country and the first thing that you see as you drive into the village is a huge sign announcing Fawley Stud! Best wishes Martin Ray ========== Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:58:28 -0400 To: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Marygreen After Betty's message the other day about viruses on e-attachments I haven't posted Hermann Lea's photos of Fawley here (1913). But if you'd like copies please e-mail and I'll send. Lea does say that Great Fawley (model for Marygreen) is 5 miles south of Wantage (birthplace of King Alfred in 849/also TH's model for Alfredston) and that it is situated in "the downland of southern Berkshire" -- but knowing the vicissitudes of local government organisation it could well have had its boundaries redrawn as adeptly as you could say "Rotten Borough." Lea also mentions that the old Roman Road ("Icknield St" in JUDE) is still plainly visible on the ridgeway, although overgrown with grass... Best, Rosemarie Morgan ==========