Recently I visited Hengistbury Head, this is a headland located on the Southern Coast of England located in Dorset. It is a Ancient Monument as well as a Natural Nature Reserve. Hengistbury Head has many different types of geology such as grassland, woodland and wetland. During a walk I came across some of the wetland areas and I realised that they depicted what I imagined the moors to look like from the Charles Dickens Novel 'Great Expectations'. They also resembled the moor areas of Thornham Marshes in Norfolk and marshes in Essex where the BBC TV Series, starring Gillian Anderson and Douglas Booth, was filmed. It precisely reminded me of the scene where the convict Magwhitch is fighting with the other convict Compeyson.
On previous visits to this area the eerie and scary nature of it had not previously struck me, but since studying the book and researching more into the story the area became a setting that could be used as inspiration especially when you see it in misty conditions.
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Hengistbury Head
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| My Image Of The Wetlands |
Sources:
http://www.tvmaps.co.uk/where-were-marshes-great-expectations-filmed
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