... local legends, tavern-bills, Washington Irving, Walter Scott, poets, novelists, and historians. Of course, he meets with Dick Turpin, who was but a common thief- he never rode to York and with a more enterprising Knight of the Road in a certain Nevison, who ...

... fair, so minutely described in Far From the Madding Crowd, where Bathsheba found Sergeant Troy disporting himself as Dick Turpin in the circus-tent. And just at the foot of Greenliill is the half-dead townlet of Kings Bere, the home of the D'Urbervilles ...