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2 unusual facts about Bere Regis


Bere Regis

Bere Regis village is sited by the side of the small Bere River or Bere Stream, a tributary of the River Piddle, where the chalk of the Dorset Downs, to the north, dips beneath newer deposits of clay, sands and gravels.

Tuberville

In Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the D'Urberville family was based on the now extinct Tuberville Family of Bere Regis in Dorset



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