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Madding crowd saves Thomas Hardy graves.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030319
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CIVIL war has been averted in Puddlestown in Dorset and Thomas Hardy's aunt and uncle, in danger of being in the concrete foundation of the new church hall, have been saved.

Puddlestown and its church were immortalised in Hardy's first great novel, Far From The Madding Crowd, and many of his relatives lived there. The Parochial Church Council wanted to concrete over the graves to make way for the hall.

But angry residents delivered letters opposing the scheme to every household in the settlement that Hardy called Weatherby in his novels.

West Dorset District council ...

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