The Acorn Inn, Evershot
Features as a place Tess avoids in Tess of the D'Urbervilles!

"Keeping the Vale on her right she steered steadily westward; passing above the Hintocks, crossing at right-angles the high-road from Sherton-Abbas to Casterbridge, and skirting Dogbury Hill and High-Stoy, with the dell between them called "The Devil's Kitchen". Still following the elevated way she reached Cross-in-Hand, where the stone pillar stands desolate and silent, to mark the site of a miracle, or murder, or both. Three miles further she cut across the straight and deserted Roman road called Long-Ash Lane; leaving which as soon as she reached it she dipped down a hill by a transverse lane into the small town or village of Evershead, being now about halfway over the distance. She made a halt here, and breakfasted a second time, heartily enough--not at the Sow-and-Acorn, for she avoided inns, but at a cottage by the church."
"Tess Cottage" is right next door to the church, the other side from the inn.
As well as the Tess connections, Evershot is right in Woodlanders country. It also features in Interlopers at the Knap.
Link to the Acorn's own website.
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