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Where did Thomas Hardy grow up in Dorset?
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Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy was born and grew up in an isolated cottage located in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England. Situated on the edge of open heathland, this rural environment and its seasonal rhythms were fundamental to his development and heavily influenced his later literary work.123