The novel takes place mostly in the town of Casterbridge, a fictional town in the fictional county of Wessex in England. Many of Hardy’s novels take place in “Wessex,” and certain place names appear in more than one novel.

What town is Casterbridge?

A picturesque cottage in Dorchester, Dorset. Of all the great classic novels of English literature, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the single work that readers in the early 21st century can recognizably walkthrough virtually scene by scene.

Where was Mayor of Casterbridge filmed?

It was an adaptation of the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and was made with Hardy’s collaboration. The film was largely filmed in Sussex, mainly in Steyning and partly at Morgan’s Shoreham Beach studio, with other scenes filmed in the Dorset town of Dorchester, the actual setting of Casterbridge.