Julian Fellowes is leading a campaign to prevent a housing development in a Dorset hamlet that was once the home of Thomas Hardy.
Lower Bockhampton, which was were Hardy wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Under the Greenwood Tree, currently has 28 houses. But plans to develop fields owned by Kingston Maurward College, the neighbouring agricultural college could add a further 70 homes.
Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, is president of the Hardy Society and lives in a manor house in a neighbouring village.
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