What is the setting of Black Beauty?

Anna Sewell's endearing and poignant story of
Black Beauty opens in a large, pleasant meadow with a clean pond at
Farmer's Grey in the English countryside, the first home of the young colt.  After he is
grown, "Darkie" as he is called, is sold and moves to Squire Gordon's park which
"skirted the village of Birtwick.  There Beauty lives in a comfortable stable with
Merrylegs and Ginger; sometimes he is turned out into a paddock or an
orchard.

When the mistress of Birtwick must move to warmer
country, Beauty is ridden to Earls Hall Park. There he lives until he injures his knees
and is no longer handsome; the Earl sells him to a livery stable in Bath.  After
enduring the whip and other hardships, Beauty is sold to Mr. Barry, who also lives in
Bath.  However, after Beauty develops thrush, a fungus of the bottom of the hoof, he is
sold after he recovers.

Following his experience at the
horse fair, Beauty becomes a London cab horse with a new master, Jeremiah Barker, a kind
and good man, until Jerry falls ill and can no longer drive a cab.  So, Beauty is sold
to a corn dealer and baker whom Jerry thought would care for the horse.  However, such
is not the case as Beauty bore heavy loads and lived in a dismal stable in
London.

His new master is Nicholas Skinner and Beauty is a
cab horse again, but it is a wretched life as he is overworked and underfed.  After he
falls, Beauty is nursed back to health and sold a few miles from London.  It is at this
sale that Mr. Thoroughgood buys Beauty and puts him in a meadow where he can recover his
strength until he is sold--of all people--to Joe Green, who does not recognize the black
horse at first.  Then, Beauty is promised he can live out his days
there.