Emsworth is a large village the south coast of England, situated on the Hampshire side of the border between Hampshire and West Sussex.

Adjacent to Emsworth is Thorney Island, formerly in Hampshire but now in West Sussex.

The renamed Emsworth Recreation Ground dates from 1909 and is the current home of Emsworth Cricket Club, which was founded in 1811 and celebrated its Bicentennial in 2011.

Emsworth railway station is on the West Coastway Line and was opened in 1847.

Emsworth is twinned with Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer in Normandy, France

* George Wilder-Former Hampshire and Sussex cricketer whose name is inscribed on a stone at Emsworth Post Office dated 1906.

Bertie is also acquainted with Lord Emsworth, another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited Blandings Castle.

Emsworth is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River.

Kilbuck Township is bordered by the borough of Glenfield and Aleppo Township to the west, Ohio Township to the north, Ross Township to the east, and Avalon, Ben Avon, Ben Avon Heights, and Emsworth to the south.

To the east is Emsworth, another small town, whilst to the west lies Bedhampton and Portsdown Hill.

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth ( Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth ), home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975.

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.

Lord Emsworth is consistently presented just shy of sixty ; since Wodehouse wrote about him for over half a century, in novels more or less set in the present, this means that his dates vary depending on what one is reading.

In " Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ", he grows a rather ragged beard, little realising the peril this puts his castle in, but soon realises that it is better to remove it.

In later youth, he became a member of the riotous Pelican Club, and a good friend of Galahad Threepwood, in whose stead he is occasionally called to Blandings, to help Gally's brother Lord Emsworth out of a jam.

Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London ; it was not published in the United States.

Since Emsworth has always been such a good friend, Dodd believes something is amiss.

He is the butler at Blandings Castle, seat of Lord Emsworth and his family, where he serves for over eighteen years.

Since he cannot honorably criticise his employer while serving as a butler, Beach makes the painful decision to resign first, but is fortunately prevented from doing so by his master's decision to shave, in " Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ".

He is placed in a similar position soon afterward, when Emsworth expects him to stand in the moonlight practising pig-calls, a practice he considers beneath his dignity, but is persuaded to overcome his foibles by the presence of young Angela, in " Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey ".

People from Emsworth worshipped at St Peter's Chapel or in the church at Warblington.

Emsworth was also allowed an annual fair, in the Middle Ages fairs were like markets but they were held only once a year and people travelled long distances to Emsworth to buy and sell at them.

At the beginning of the 19th century Emsworth had a population of less than 1, 200, this made Emsworth a large village at the time.

Cricket in Emsworth has been played at the same ground, Cold Harbour Lawn since 1761.

Fishing oysters at Emsworth ended until new sewers were dug but the industry never completely recovered.

The north of Emsworth at this time was used for growing flowers and further north was woodland ( today Hollybank Woods ).

File: emsworthquay. jpg | Emsworth Quay flooded at high water on 10 March 2008

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* River Ems ( Chichester Harbour ), an English river with its mouth at Emsworth, Hampshire

Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.

Lord Emsworth has ten sisters ( one deceased ), two brothers ( one deceased ), two sons, at least one daughter, and many in-laws – for a full list of his family members, see the Threepwood family list.

* Richard Vernon portrayed Lord Emsworth in BBC Radio 4 adaptations from the 1960s to the 1980s, including series based on Galahad at Blandings and the Blandings short stories.

* A Wodehouse biography, with details of his time at the real Emsworth

Lord Emsworth and Others contains one story set at Blandings Castle, three golf stories narrated by the Oldest Member, one story featuring Drones Club member Freddie Widgeon, one tale narrated by Mr Mulliner, and three Ukridge stories.

* One in Lord Emsworth and Others ( 1937 ) ( U. S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings )

In January 1903, at Baker Street, James M. Dodd sees Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth.

Emsworth has a population of approximately 10, 000 people.

In the 19th century Emsworth had as many as 30 pubs and beer houses, probably to do with the fact that Emsworth was a fishing village.

Emsworth began as a small Saxon village.

Emsworth was not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Although Emsworth started as a small settlement it soon grew to be larger and more important.

In the Middle Ages Emsworth was a busy little port.

Large quantities of wine ( the drink of the upper class ) were imported from Europe through Emsworth.

In the 18th century and the 19th century Emsworth was known for shipbuilding, boat building and rope making.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was still a busy little port.

In Emsworth grain from the area was ground into flour by tidal mills.

Flour from Emsworth was transported by ship to places like London and Portsmouth.

Timber from the area was also exported from Emsworth in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the 19th century Emsworth had as many as 30 pubs and beer houses, probably to do with the fact that Emsworth was a fishing village.

Today, only nine remain, and this number may have decreased due to the Emsworth fishing and oyster trade dying down, or to the consolidation of the pub trade in the 1990s and 2000s.

However, Emsworth failed to take off as a seaside resort.

Two years later Queen Victoria visited Emsworth in 1842.