A return trip to the Hardy Tree in St Pancras Old Churchyard, associated with author Thomas Hardy. It was created when gravestones were piled around an ash tree during the 1860s. After contracting a disease, the tree fell in December 2022. This is what it looked in June 2025…
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Good Friday
At Easter 2023 I spent a few days cycling in Dorset, exploring a few of my favourite places in the south of the county. Here is the first of a short series of articles on the each of the rides. On Good Friday I headed out east to explore some of the county’s literary and artistic associations.
The Hardy Tree
From St Pancras International trains run to places as diverse as Luton, Sheffield and Paris. Just after they have left the station they will pass a small church standing in an old churchyard.