Hardy's own memorial is a stained glass window in the south aisle showing the prophet Elijah. Leave the church by the main gate. The vicarage, where the Mellstock quire went to talk to Parson Maybold, stands on the right. Turn right, and retrace your steps to follow the path beside the Frome. Turn left along the minor road over the bridge and walk up the street between the cottages.
Hollyhocks look in at bedroom windows amid a pervading scent of meadowsweet and honeysuckle.
Opposite the Yalbury restaurant on the left, you pass the old village pump, complete with its handle and stone trough beneath. Walk on from the village to the crossroads. Cuckoo Lane is directly ahead and you can continue along it to the lane on the right leading to Hardy's cottage. But a more interesting route is to turn right at the crossroads, along the road to Tincleton. In just over a quarter of a mile you come to a crosstrack.