Mellstock

"Mellstock was a parish of consideable acreage, the hamlets compsing it lying at a much greater distance from each other than in ordinarily the case. [...] There was Lower Mellstock, the main village; half a mile from this were the church and vicarage, and a few other houses, the spot being rather lonely now, though in past centuries it had been the most thickly-populated quarter of the parish. A mile north-east lay the hamlet of Upper Mellstock ... ; and at other points knots of cottages, besides solitary farmsteads and dairies."