While in Wimborne for the Folk Festival, we managed to find our way to Llanherne Villa where Thomas and Emma Hardy lived between 1881 and 1883 (after Hardy had been seriously ill in London for some time):
In 'The Hardy Way', Margaret Marande (2015: 61, 63) explains that Llanherne is a "Victorian brick villa", now located on 12 Avenue Road in the south-east of Wimborne, and "stands today virtually unchanged" from when the Hardys lived there.
Moreover, Margaret Marande (2015: 63) reveals that on the night when they moved to Llanherne, "the Hardys watched Tebbutt's Comet from the garden", which must've "contributed to the evolution of 'Two on a Tower'" which Hardy wrote at Llanherne in 1882.
I read 'Two on a Tower' many moons ago in my late teens, back in the mid-1980s (how time flies).
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