Our own Pat Fleming has come across evidence that an early story by Thomas Hardy, set in 'Silverthorne' is, in fact, based on a conflation of the names of Silverton and Thorverton. I ubderstand you can find out more about this if you do a Google search on Thomas Hardy and Devon. I knew vaguely about the Silverton connection having seen a map in the front of a Hardy novel many years ago that identifies all the locations that Hardy used in his novels and short stories.
It would be intersting to know what led Hardy to base one of his early stories in this area. As he was a prolific letter writer and his correspondace is at Exeter University a research project awaits someone.
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