e/Egdon Heath

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has gloss	eng: Egdon Heath is a fictitious heath in Hardys Wessex, a hamlet of people who cut the furze, or gorse, that grows there. The area is rife with witchcraft and superstition, as in The Return of the Native and the short story "The Withered Arm." One basis for Egdon Heath is Studland Heath, an area of moorland between Dorchester and Bournemouth in the county of Dorset, England. In Thomas Hardy: A Biography (1982), Hardy expert Michael Millgate suggests the small area of heath beside Hardys birthplace at Upper Bockhampton as the origin of Egdon Heath. The small heath by Hardy's childhood home is much smaller and uninhabited.
lexicalization	eng: Egdon Heath
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