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St Juliot

Tucked away in the wooded valley of the fast flowing River Valency, this hidden hamlet is home to St Juliot Parish Church, upon which Thomas Hardy worked when an architect, and also where, in 1870, he met his future wife, Emma Gifford, the rector’s sister-in-law. Emma later professed that the young architect had already appeared to her in a dream and wrote how she was ‘immediately arrested by his familiar appearance’. Much of the couple’s courtship took place along the wild stretch of coastline between Boscastle and Crackington Haven and, when Emma died, over 40 years later, Hardy returned to St Juliot to erect a memorial to her in the church. Following his death in 1928, a similar memorial was erected to Hardy himself.