Guided Walk - The Moule family and Fordington

Guided Walk - The Moule family and Fordington

By Dorchester Heritage Committee

Heritage Open Day event.

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The Town Pump

Cornhill Dorchester DT1 1BA United Kingdom

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About this event

Come and join the chairman and academic director of the Thomas Hardy Society, Mark Damon Chutter, to learn more about the Reverend Henry Moule and his family who lived in Fordington Vicarage . Moule invented the earth closet and was instrumental during the cholera epidemic in Mill Street during the Nineteenth Century. The Moule family were close friends with the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy . Mark’s family lived in the Old Vicarage from 1942-1971. Under 5's do not need to book a ticket.

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