Melbury Osmond

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Melbury Osmond is a village in north west Dorset, England, situated on the A37 road seven miles south of Yeovil. The village has a population of 190 (2001). It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a possession of the Arundell family, and remained so until the 19th century. The parish church, St. Osmund's, has registers dating to 1550; it was totally rebuilt in 1745, and restored in 1888.

Thomas Hardy's mother lived in Melbury Osmond as a child, and the village appears in his novel The Woodlanders as "Little Hintock" (the heroine's name is "Grace Melbury".)