Bhompston

[Hardy's Blooms-End]

Source of photograph: The Return of the Native in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, facing p. 154.

According to the editors, many of whose remarks seem based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea, "Blooms-End, the name given to the home of the Yeobrights, was drawn from a farm-house called Bhompston, which stands in a green field just off the margin of Egdon Heath in the direction of Lower Bockhampton village. In the old oak-beamed room of this house the mummers were assembled to play 'St. George and the Dragon' at the Christmas revels."