"Dorchester from the Northeast":

"Casterbridge ... was a place deposited in the block upon a cornfield. There was no suburb in the modern sense, or transitional intermixture of town and down. It stood with regard to the wide fertile land adjoining, clean-cut and distinct, like a chess-board on a green table-cloth." (Ch. XIV)

"The Cerne Weir":

This is the weir on the Cerne River, not far from Grey's Bridge, where Henchard contemplates suicide until he sees his own image in the river, the mannikin from the skimmity-ride: "The river here was deep and strong at all times, and the hatches on this account were raised and lowered by cogs and a winch. A path led from the second bridge over the highway ... to these Hatches ...." (Ch. XLI)