HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01040 4/4/01 "CANFORD MANOR" ==================================================== From: "stuttardc" Subject: Canford Manor Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:16:49 +0100 Somebody made an enquiry appertaining to Canford Manor a few days ago. I emailed the tourist office in Dorchester and asked about this place. Apparently it was called 'Chene Manor' in Hardy's novels. The building is now a school called Canford School. I am uncertain if it open to the public but any further enquiries could be directed to Wimborne Tourist Information Centre on 01202-886116. I think the school sometimes have open days. Hope this information is of some help. On another note, I live quite close to Beaminster if anybody should like info on Hardy's 'Emminster'. Just a thought. Christopher ========== From: "Jon H." Subject: Re: Canford Manor (an excerpt from a story) Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:58:15 -0700 The mansion of the Earl, as well as that of his neighbour, Barbara's father, stood back about a mile from the highway, with which each was connected by an ordinary drive and lodge. It was along this particular highway that the young Earl drove on a certain evening at Christmastide some twenty years before the end of the last century, to attend a ball at Chene Manor, the home of Barbara and her parents Sir John and Lady Grebe. Sir John's was a baronetcy created a few years before the breaking out of the Civil War, and his lands were even more extensive than those of Lord Uplandtowers himself, comprising this Manor of Chene, another on the coast near, half the Hundred of Cockdene, and well-enclosed lands in several other parishes, notably Warborne and those contiguous. At this time Barbara was barely seventeen, and the ball is the first occasion on which we have any tradition of Lord Uplandtowers attempting tender relations with her; it was early enough, God knows. ~From "Barbara Of The House Of Grebe" (1890) http://www.geocities.com/hardyshortstories/barbara.htm http://www.geocities.com/hardyshortstories/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/dorset/poole.htm Picture at http://www.archaeology.org/9803/abstracts/jpegs/nineveh.jpeg ========== From: "Michael Barry, Wessex Actors" Subject: Re: Canford Manor Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:29:41 +0100 If Canford School is the same as Canford Magna School - and I think it is - then my theatre company performed there a year ago in their very lovely (new) arts centre, which is open to the public for many events. As regards older buildings, I particularly remember a huge gateway entrance standing as a remnant in the middle of a service road, with school traffic going round it.The dining-room where we ate was obviously an older hall/refectory. Don't know if this helps. Michael Barry ==========