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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.
* 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.
Emsworth is located at ( 40. 512318 ,-80. 095577 ).
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 ".

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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.
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.
In 1847 the railway came to Emsworth with the construction of the West Coastway Line, Emsworth railway station was built to serve the town.
In March 2008, Emsworth was hit by a large storm which resulted in numerous trees being uprooted and, combined with a high tide, led to large parts of the town being flooded.
In the 1960s Richardson played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and his friend Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.
* 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.
* A Wodehouse biography, with details of his time at the real Emsworth
It was Colonel Emsworth, beside himself with rage, and he made it plain to Dodd that he was to leave on the first available train.
His strength of character is sorely tested, when called upon by Ronnie Fish to help in his schemes involving the Empress, in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather ; he later does indeed resign, after shooting Rupert Baxter with an air gun ; however, Emsworth cannot do without his butler, and he assures his faithful servant of continued employment, in " The Crime Wave at Blandings ".
By the time of Leave it to Psmith, his efficiency has become a bane to the sunshine-loving Lord, and when he finds himself locked out of the castle wearing lemon-coloured pyjamas in the early morning, and throws flowerpots at Emsworth's bedroom window in an attempt to wake him, Emsworth decides he is insane and sacks him, replacing him with Ronald Psmith.
A world's worker himself, Freddie eyed with scorn one who, like Lord Emsworth, neither toiled nor spun ... And if there is one thing that pierces the armour of an English father of the upper classes it is to be looked down on by his younger son.
Graduate of an Agricultural College, Amazonian Miss Simmons tends her charge well in Pigs Have Wings, and returns to the post in Galahad at Blandings, only to elope at the end with a nephew of Lord Emsworth.
In Service With a Smile, a Church Lad teases her with a potato on a piece of string, and Dunstable once again schemes to take her away from Lord Emsworth, planning to sell her to Lord Tilbury, but the plot ( involving Lavender Briggs and Wellbeloved ) is blocked by the dashing Uncle Fred.
The inside was lined with moss and the floor was made up of Emsworth pebbles of differing colours.

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