books.google.co.uk - The town is Dorchester in Dorset; the time the beginning of the seventeenth century. Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English country town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6 August 1613 much of it was destroyed in a great conflagration,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Fire_from_Heaven.html?id=4jbmUq4Lo5sC&q=constables&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFire from Heaven
