P.G. Wodehouse at Emsworth

1903

The author P.G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, lived at Emsworth House on Record Road in the early 1900s. Wodehouse used the name Emsworth for one of his most enduring characters, Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, the amiable, pig-obsessed peer who featured in numerous novels and short stories. Wodehouse's connection to the town is a source of local pride, and the Blandings novels carry a faint echo of the Hampshire-Sussex border country, even though the fictional Blandings is set in Shropshire. The Emsworth Museum holds material relating to Wodehouse's time in the town.