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Owners of historic pub The Silent Woman spark row after changing its 100-year-old name which was inspired by Thomas Hardy

The ‘woke’ owners of a historic Dorset pub have been criticised for changing the public house’s century-old name.

The pub in Wareham has been known as The Silent Woman since the 1920s.

Its name was inspired by the famous author, and Dorset native, Thomas Hardy who referred to it as ‘The Quiet Woman’ in his 1878 novel The Return of the Native.

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