Dorchester is the county town of Dorset and the heart of Thomas Hardy's literary landscape — he called it Casterbridge. The town is ringed by ancient earthworks including Maiden Castle, one of Europe's largest Iron Age hillforts, and Maumbury Rings, a Neolithic henge later converted into a Roman amphitheatre. The award-winning Dorset Museum brings 250 million years of history to life, while Hardy's Cottage and Max Gate connect visitors to the great novelist.
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