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Plans to build a 190 acre solar farm on countryside that inspired legendary novelist Thomas Hardy have been met with a madding crowd.
Locals are up in arms over the proposed plant, which would be equivalent in size to 150 Wembley Stadiums, with some 150,000 panels covering fields of green land in Dorset.
The farm would be able to power 13,000 homes each year, and would be just three miles away from another site where a similar-sized solar farm has already been earmarked.
Between them they will cover about 400 acres of verdant land in the Blackmore Vale, a patchwork of fields that have captured the imagination of Victorian author Hardy and poet William Barnes.