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

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

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.

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.

The oyster fishing industry declined after 1902 when sewage polluted the oysters, which resulted in some people dying after eating oysters from Emsworth.

File: Emsworth6. JPG | Emsworth from the mill pond wall

File: EmsworthWater. JPG | Emsworth Channel, Chichester Harbour from Emsworth

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.

* Ralph Richardson played him in adaptations of six Blandings shorts, made by the BBC and broadcast in 1967 ( only the first, adapted from the short " Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend ", still remains in the BBC archives ).

* 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.

* " Ukridge and the Home from Home ", " The Come-back of Battling Billson ", and " The Level Business Head ", which all appear in Lord Emsworth and Others ( 1937 ).

* A single story from Lord Emsworth and Others:

The A259 runs east from Emsworth in Hampshire, into West Sussex via Chichester, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Ferring, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Portslade And East Sussex via Hove, Brighton, Peacehaven, Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne, Pevensey, Bexhill, Hastings and Rye.

Category: People from Emsworth

Many of Wodehouse's short stories appeared first in magazines and were later published in collections, some of which include tales from more than one series: Lord Emsworth and Others, for example, contains stories about Blandings Castle, the Oldest Member, Mr Mulliner, and Freddie Widgeon.

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 ".

When his father visits in the story " Birth of a Salesman ", set three years after Freddie's marriage, Emsworth finds that " in those three years some miracle had transformed from a vapid young London lizard into a go-getter, a live wire and a man who thought on his feet and did it now.

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.

* Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, character from the stories of P. G.

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 was not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

In 1239 Emsworth was granted the right to hold a market ( in those days there were few shops and if you wanted to buy or sell anything you had to go to a market ).

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.

In the Middle Ages Emsworth was a busy little port.

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 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.

By 1901 the population of Emsworth was about 2, 000.

( The 1, 000th house in Emsworth was built in 1953 ).

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

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.

The Emsworth Food Festival was a community event involving local schools, businesses and community organisations.

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

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

The Emsworth Channel, the Thorney Channel and the Chichester Channel, which also branches off into the Bosham Lake and Itchenor Reach.

Local bus services are provided by Emsworth & District, which operate services to Havant and Chichester.

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.

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 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.

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.

* Sebastian Beach, the butler of Lord Emsworth and his family in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse

On the advice of his friend and fellow-Drone Hugo Carmody, he once again uses his uncle, this time to wangle the post of secretary to Lord Emsworth, recently vacated by Carmody.

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 ".

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 ".

Emsworth is rattled by the thought that " after years of regarding this child as a drone and a wastrel, the child as now regarding him as one.

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.

" Stung, Emsworth regains his confidence by helping a young woman sell richly bound encyclopedias of Sport door to door.

It is route 27 which is operated by Emsworth and District.

Owned by the doting Lord Emsworth, the Empress is an enormous black Berkshire sow, who wins many prizes in the " Fat Pigs " class at the local Shropshire Agricultural Show, and is subject of many plots and schemes, generally involving her kidnap for various purposes.

* George Cyril Wellbeloved, her first and best-known keeper, is a rather unreliable sort, a little too fond of drink and lacking the old feudal loyalty ; he defects to the rival camp of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe for a time, later returning to Blandings ( in Service With a Smile ), only to further betray Emsworth by joining yet another plot to kidnap the Empress.