Setting

Casterbridge-
This is the town in which Gabriel goes to look for work at the job fair.

Weatherbury-
When Gabriel cannot find any work in Casterbridge, he heads on to Weatherbury where he comes across a fire which he helps put out. There he gets offered a job by Bathsheba for helping put out the fire.

**Wessex-**
Wessex is where the entire novel takes place. It is an imaginary English county that Hardy made up. It is believed to be based on his childhood home of Dorchester England. He used Wessex as the setting for most all of his novels. "Hardy wrote Far From the Madding Crowd in the same Dorchester cottage that he was born and which his grandfather had built in 1800. Though fictional, the residents of Wessex- farmers, landowners, laborers, servants, and the like- are considered true representations of people living at the time the novel was published." (enotes.com)