From The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

Read the sentence from the story. Then answer the question.Thestranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
The setting evoked by the words in this sentence can best be described as —