Literature
- Cerne Abbas features in Thomas Hardy's Wessex as "Abbots Cernel".
- School of the Night, a mystery by Judith Cook set in Elizabethan England, contains scenes set in Cerne Abbas, and mentions the Cerne Abbas Giant.
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