"The Stag Gate, Charborough":

According to Hermann Lea in Thomas Hardy's Wessex,Charborough, near Winbourne, was "the prototype of the Welland House of the story." Here lived Lady Constantine.

"Charborough Skyline":

On the horizon, a careful viewer can spot a tower, part of the estate: "This pine-clad [hill] was yet further marked out from the general landscape by having on its summit a tower in the form of a classical column...." (Chapter I) Here Swithin St. Cleve pursued his interest in astronomy.