After a couple of mile walk from Bridport, and being pointed in the right direction by an Australian man, I arrived at West Bay.
In The Hardy Way: A 19th-Century Pilgrimage, Maragaret Marande (2015: 138) reveals that The Harbour Inn mentioned in Thomas Hardy's short story, 'Fellow Townsmen', from the Wessex Tales anthology is based on the Bridport Arms which "dates from the seventeenth century":
Margaret Marande (2015: 136) also informs that the sea at West Bay "can be fierce and unpredictable, as it was" when Mrs Downe and Mrs Barnet "were capsized in their boat" in 'Fellow Townsmen'.
And it was certainly blowing up a gale during my brief saunter across the West Bay beach.
Was glad to have a look around the small town which was no more than a village in Hardy's time.
Think the picture below conveys how rough the sea can be at West Bay:
No comments:
Post a Comment