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Christmas at Poxwell Manor
Festive fun at Hardy's Oxwell Hall
Date: Sunday, 21st December 2025
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Cost: £20 THS Members / £30 Non-Members
Venue: Poxwell Manor, Poxwell, Dorset, DT2 8ND
BOOKINGS CLOSED - THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT
Join the owners and members of the Thomas Hardy Society for a special fund-raising Christmas event.
Enjoy Mulled Wine, Mince Pies, Carols and Hardy Readings in a friendly atmosphere around a blazing fire in this wonderful home.
Pianist - Robert Sword- Christmas Interludes Dorset Museum Choir conducted by Mark Chutter
A delightful event to put you in the mood for your own Christmas festivities! By kind invitation of Ken Young and Sarah Gregson.
Thomas Hardy describes the fictional Oxwell Hall as a "rambling and neglected dwelling," a "crumbling place" with a "grey, weather-worn" facade where fungi grew in the larder and cress colonized the plaster. This description is a stark contrast to the real-life Poxwell Manor, the inspiration for Oxwell Hall, which Hardy used in The Trumpet-Major.
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