"Beeny Cliff":

Beeny Cliff is the site of Elfride Swancourt's daring (in more senses than one) rescue of the architect Stephen Smith. She uses torn sections of her petticoats to fashion a rope to help him climb back from the edge of the precipice. Beeny also appears in several of Hardy's poems, most notably "Beeny Cliff."

Hardy's employer, G.R. Crickmay, wrote to him in February 1870 to ask "if he would go to Cornwall and 'take a plan and particulars of the dilapidated church in the tiny hamlet of St. Juliot."(Michael Millgate. Thomas Hardy: A Biography. 121)

"At the door of the rectory he was greeted not by the rector himself, the Revd Caddel Holder, who was in bed with gout, nor by the rector's wife, who was nursing her husband, but by a 'young lady in brown' who proved to be Miss Emma Lavinia Gifford, the rector's sister-in-law." (Millgate. 121-2)