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Doles Ash

Coordinates: 50°48′05″N 2°23′45″W / 50.80151°N 2.39579°W / 50.80151; -2.39579
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Doles Ash Farmhouse

Doles Ash is a farm in Dorset, England, a few kilometers east of Piddletrenthide and south of Plush.

The farm features in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles as Flintcomb-Ash,[1] the "starve-acre" farm where Tess goes to dig swedes with Marion.

References

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  1. ^ Harper, Charles G (1904). The Hardy country: literary landmarks of the Wessex novels. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 170.

50°48′05″N 2°23′45″W / 50.80151°N 2.39579°W / 50.80151; -2.39579