"was re-used as the site for Bowes Castle. The place-name 'Bowes' is first attested in a charter of 1148, where it appears as ""Bogas"". This is the plural of the Old English ""boga"" meaning 'bow', probably signifying an arched bridge. The village church is dedicated to St Giles. The only pub in the village, ""The Ancient Unicorn"", is reputed to be haunted by several ghosts. This 17th-century coaching inn famously played host to Charles Dickens as he toured the local area. Dickens found inspiration in the village academy, which he immortalised as Dotheboys Hall in ""Nicholas Nickleby"", and the graves"
"The Friendly, Wuthering Heights and The Old Silent in Stanbury, a short walk across the valley. Oldfield, West Yorkshire Oldfield is a small hamlet within the county of West Yorkshire, England, situated north of Stanbury and near to Oakworth. It is approximately west of the town of Keighley. It mainly consists of farmland and has panoramic views across the Worth Valley towards Brontë Country. Top Withens, the house featured in the novel Wuthering Heights, is clearly visible. There are no shops in Oldfield; however there is a successful primary school with Mrs Fiona Lidstone as its Head Teacher. Oldfield has"
"Oldfield, West Yorkshire Oldfield is a small hamlet within the county of West Yorkshire, England, situated north of Stanbury and near to Oakworth. It is approximately west of the town of Keighley. It mainly consists of farmland and has panoramic views across the Worth Valley towards Brontë Country. Top Withens, the house featured in the novel Wuthering Heights, is clearly visible. There are no shops in Oldfield; however there is a successful primary school with Mrs Fiona Lidstone as its Head Teacher. Oldfield has a population of over 100. The local public house is The Grouse Inn, although there is"
"Hatfield. It has more than 23,000 students. Hertfordshire is the location of Jack Worthing's country house in Oscar Wilde's play ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". Jane Austen's novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" is primarily set in Hertfordshire. The location of Mr Jarndyce's Bleak House in Charles Dickens's ""Bleak House"" is near St Albans. The eponymous residence in E. M. Forster's novel ""Howards End"" was based on Rooks Nest House just outside Stevenage. George Orwell based ""Animal Farm"" on Wallington, Hertfordshire where he lived between 1936 and 1940. Manor Farm and The Great Barn both feature in the novel. Hertfordshire Hertfordshire (;"
"choosing the name after seeing it on a signpost during a visit to Great Yarmouth. Links with the novel are prevalent in Blundeston today with road names such as Copperfield Terrace and Dickens Court. On the village sign David is pictured looking towards the church, and the Plough Inn has a plaque over its entrance that says ""Barkis (the Carrier) from the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, started from here"". The classes in the primary school are called Micawber, Trotwood, Peggoty, Copperfield and Barkis after characters in the novel. The village is the home of Blundeston Cricket Club, who"
"Doonesbury comic strip, the character Zonker Harris buys a British peerage which grants him the title ""His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham"". Biggleswade, as part of Central Bedfordshire, has a three-tier schooling system with lower schools catering for ages between 5 and 9, middle schools from 9 to 13 and Stratton Upper School continuing education up and into Sixth Form. Two of the local schools, Stratton Upper School and Biggleswade Academy, attained Academy status in 2011. In birth order: Biggleswade Biggleswade is a market town and civil parish located on the River Ivel in Bedfordshire, England. It is growing"
"for the denouement of the novel, it is explained that the antagonist owns the entire village, and the nearby MoD site serves as a base for his operations. Goathland also features in ""Ice"", a novel by Australian writer Louis Nowra (Allen & Unwin, 2008). Goathland Goathland is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is in the North York Moors national park due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line. According to"
"1914. The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is currently restoring the canal. The Great Western Main Line through the Vale of White Horse was opened in 1840. It passes through the northern extremity of Kingston Lisle parish, about north of the village. The village has one pub, the Blowing Stone Inn. The parish is served by Uffington Primary School just over away, to which there is a free bus service. The village features in Thomas Hughes' novel ""Tom Brown's School Days"". Kingston Lisle Kingston Lisle is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England, about west"
"corporation of Halifax. During their construction, the narrow gauge Blake Dean Railway was used to get the navvies and the construction material to the construction sites. The reservoirs are on the Pennine Way. Walshaw Dean Reservoirs Walshaw Dean Reservoirs are three reservoirs situated above Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. They are between Hebden Bridge and Top Withins, a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, the reputed inspiration for ""Wuthering Heights"" in the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. The reservoirs' catchments are dominated by peatland habitats. The reservoirs drain into the Calder Valley. On 19 May 1989 Walshaw Dean Lodge"
"nearest city of Worcester ( from Eckington). Eckington is renowned for Eckington Bridge, which is the subject of a poem by Arthur Quiller-Couch, its village cross and its Norman-period church. It has a thriving first school, the Eckington Church of England First School, a scout hut with surrounding recreation grounds, home to village's football and cricket teams, and a well used village hall. Eckington has a village shop and 2 hairdressers. It currently has two pubs The Bell and The Anchor, both offering food and guest accommodation; a third pub, The Crown, closed in the early 1990s. Eckington railway station"
"Dartford Bridge spanning the Thames. The Bluewater shopping centre at Greenhithe is the United Kingdom's largest shopping mall. Kent has provided inspiration for several notable writers and artists. Canterbury's religious role gave rise to Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"", a key development in the English language. The father of novelist Charles Dickens worked at the Chatham Dockyard; in many of his books, the celebrated novelist featured the scenery of Chatham, Rochester, and the Cliffe marshes. During the late 1930s, Nobel Prize-awarded novelist William Golding worked as a teacher at Maidstone Grammar School, where he met his future wife Ann Brookfield. William Caxton,"
"he established at Cowan Bridge the Clergy Daughters' School for low-cost education of daughters of poorer members of the clergy. This school later moved to Casterton where it continued as the independent Casterton School, and subsequently (from 2013) the preparatory department of Sedbergh School. One of Sedbergh School's three girls houses is named Carus after Carus Wilson, following the arrival of pupils from Casterton Senior School. The author Charlotte Brontë was a pupil at Cowan Bridge in 1824/25 and attended Sunday services at Tunstall church. She featured the school in ""Jane Eyre"" as ""Lowood"". She based her character Robert Brocklehurst"
"the BBC Two comedy series ""Upstart Crow"", which follows the writing and preparation to stage ""Romeo and Juliet"" after William has gained some early career notoriety for his poetry, ""Henry VI"" and ""Richard III"". Anne Hathaway's childhood was spent in a house near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. Although it is often called a cottage, it is, in fact, a spacious twelve-roomed farmhouse, with several bedrooms, now set in extensive gardens. It was known as Newlands Farm in Shakespeare's day and had more than of land attached to it. As in many houses of the period, it has multiple chimneys to"
"school age children. There are also two public houses: The Friendly and the Wuthering Heights which dates from 1763 and was formerly and locally known as 'The Cross'. The Old Silent Inn (formerly The Eagle) is a public house and guest house close to the village which is over 400 years old. Two paths pass through the village; The Bronte Way and The Pennine way. Stanbury Stanbury is a village in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury civil parish, and in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately west from"
"of rhetorical force and other effects designed to make an impression on their young readers' minds. Cowan Bridge School Cowan Bridge School refers to the Clergy Daughters' School, a school mainly for the daughters of middle class clergy founded in the 1820s. It was first located in the village of Cowan Bridge in the English county of Lancashire, where it was attended by the Brontë sisters. Two of the sisters, Maria and Elizabeth died from tuberculosis in the aftermath of a typhoid outbreak at the school. In the 1830s the school moved to Casterton, a few miles away, where it"
"two different fictional cottages that Bertie Wooster stays in. The first Wee Nooke, located at Steeple Bumpleigh, appeared in ""Joy in the Morning"", though this cottage was destroyed by Edwin Craye. The second Wee Nooke, located at the town of Maiden Eggesford, appears in ""Aunts Aren't Gentlemen"". A fictional minor public school with a strong cricketing tradition, Wrykyn is most closely associated with Mike Jackson, hero of ""Mike at Wrykyn"". It also features in the earlier school novels ""The Gold Bat"" and ""The White Feather"", as well as a number of early school shorts. The school is an imposing place,"
"urban areas. They continue to produce music today, and have garnered critical acclaim and a cult following around the world. Inkberrow Inkberrow is a village in Worcestershire, England, often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series ""The Archers"". In particular, The Bull, the fictional Ambridge pub, is supposed to be based on The Old Bull in Inkberrow. The village's parish church is dedicated to St. Peter and contains the Savage family chapel. In 2006, Inkberrow was awarded the title of Worcestershire Village of the Year and won the Building Community Life section"
"Walshaw Dean Reservoirs Walshaw Dean Reservoirs are three reservoirs situated above Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. They are between Hebden Bridge and Top Withins, a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, the reputed inspiration for ""Wuthering Heights"" in the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. The reservoirs' catchments are dominated by peatland habitats. The reservoirs drain into the Calder Valley. On 19 May 1989 Walshaw Dean Lodge entered the UK Weather Records with the ""Highest 120-min total"" rainfall at 193 mm. this record still stands (although the Met Office expresses 'reservations' about this value). The reservoirs were built by the"
"closed in 2013. At Dotheboys Schoolhouse visitors experience a Victorian classroom. Touch-screens replace slates, and visitors take a quiz on Dickens' life and works. The haunted house was first advertised as Ebenezer Scrooge's house, but before the grand opening was renamed the Haunted House of 1859, possibly alluding to Dickens' Christmas story, ""A Haunted House,"" published that year. The house features a ""Pepper's ghost"" effect, which is part of the tour. The original company Dickens World Ltd placed itself in administration when unable to meet a £6 million tax bill, investors losing £32 million. Former director Ed De Lucy revealed"
"The Devon School The Devon School is a fictional school created by author John Knowles in the novels ""A Separate Peace"" and"" Peace Breaks Out."" It is based on Knowles' alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. Like Phillips Exeter during World War II, Devon is a boys' boarding school in New Hampshire. Knowles places the school in a town that bears its name, specifically at the head of a quaint residential street called Gilman Street. The school ""emerged naturally from the town which had produced it."" ""A Separate Peace"" covers the summer of 1942 and the Winter Session of 1942-1943. The"
"Inkberrow Inkberrow is a village in Worcestershire, England, often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series ""The Archers"". In particular, The Bull, the fictional Ambridge pub, is supposed to be based on The Old Bull in Inkberrow. The village's parish church is dedicated to St. Peter and contains the Savage family chapel. In 2006, Inkberrow was awarded the title of Worcestershire Village of the Year and won the Building Community Life section of the competition. Inkberrow was marked as a new town in the 1960s, but this plan was not carried out."
"the following week. Top Withens Top Withens () (also known as Top Withins) is a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, West Yorkshire, England which is said to have been the inspiration for the location of the Earnshaw family house Wuthering Heights in the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. A plaque affixed to a wall reads: The ruin lies on the Pennine Way east of Withins Height below Delf Hill. It is a popular walking destination from nearby Haworth and Stanbury. Such is the attraction to Japanese literary tourists that some footpath signs in the area include directions in"
"the moral effect of novels on young minds, and those that were published tended to lean towards giving moral instruction. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, and ""Dombey and Son"" (1848) and ""David Copperfield"" (1850) by Charles Dickens had school story elements, which generated considerable public interest and close to 100 school stories had been published between 1749 and 1857, the year that ""Tom Brown's School Days"" by Thomas Hughes appeared. It is perhaps the most famous of all such tales, and its popularity helped firmly establish the genre, which rapidly expanded in the decades to follow across thousands of"
"at Dawlish in 1802, later complaining about its ""particularly pitiful and wretched library"". She mentioned the town several times in her 1811 novel ""Sense and Sensibility"". In Charles Dickens' ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1838–39) the protagonist inherits a small farm near Dawlish. The novelist and poet Margaret Holford died in Dawlish on 11 September 1852, aged 84. The Romantic poet John Keats wrote a poem titled ""Dawlish fair"". Dawlish railway station is situated in the town centre next to the beach. It is served by trains to most stations in Devon, and to London and further afield. The line is noted as"
"said to be the inspiration for Brinkley Court, the country seat for Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia. In addition, Hanley Castle Grammar School, 50 metres from St Mary's Church, was the model for Market Snodsbury Grammar School, in ""Right Ho Jeeves"" (1934). with at least one of the stories mentioning the School Hall, now the school library, in detail. Many alumni are members of the Old Hancastrians Association, which is chaired by a school governor, and organises annual events. Former pupils often return to visit the school and sign the Old Boy's (and girls) book which is hosted in the nearby"
"Naguamsett, a marshy, mud-banked saline body of water that eventually connected to the ocean. The two rivers were separated by a dam and a small waterfall. The Devon School The Devon School is a fictional school created by author John Knowles in the novels ""A Separate Peace"" and"" Peace Breaks Out."" It is based on Knowles' alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. Like Phillips Exeter during World War II, Devon is a boys' boarding school in New Hampshire. Knowles places the school in a town that bears its name, specifically at the head of a quaint residential street called Gilman Street."
"writing after retirement, and his first novel ""Teacher, Teacher!"" sold 100,000 copies. In 2016 he was awarded the honorary title of Cultural Fellow of York St John University. Jack Sheffield Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds) is a British author who wrote a series of books of fiction about the headmaster of a village school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time. He grew up in Gipton in Leeds was trained as a teacher at"
"good character and 'the respect of the neighborhood,' there is not a living to be got out of the broom."" The occupation of crossing sweeper received perhaps its most famous literary treatment in Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"" with the character of Jo, a homeless boy who ""fights it out at his crossing among the mud and wheels, the horses, whips, and umbrellas, and gets but a scanty sum..."" Jo has been characterized as ""one of the most significant figures"" in the novel and as a way for Dickens to address juvenile vagrancy, which was seen as a serious social"
"Top Withens Top Withens () (also known as Top Withins) is a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, West Yorkshire, England which is said to have been the inspiration for the location of the Earnshaw family house Wuthering Heights in the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. A plaque affixed to a wall reads: The ruin lies on the Pennine Way east of Withins Height below Delf Hill. It is a popular walking destination from nearby Haworth and Stanbury. Such is the attraction to Japanese literary tourists that some footpath signs in the area include directions in Japanese. On 18"
"a large gunpowder factory, all of which are now closed. Shallcross Hall was the ancestral home of the Shallcross family, but it was damaged by fire and torn down in 1968. The Shallcross family is featured in the novel ""A World of Profit"" (1968) by Louis Auchincloss. Shallcross, Derbyshire Shallcross is a small village in northwestern Derbyshire, England. It is located south of Manchester, at the edge of the Peak District, on the eastern side of the River Goyt. Located between Whaley Bridge and Fernilee, it is now administered as part of the larger community of Whaley Bridge. The area"
"Bridge were poured into her depiction of Lowood School in ""Jane Eyre"": the scanty and at times spoiled food, the lack of heating and adequate clothing, the periodic epidemics of illness such as ""low fever"" (probably typhus), the severity and arbitrariness of the punishments, and even the harshness of particular teachers (a Miss Andrews who taught at Cowan Bridge is thought to have been Charlotte's model for Miss Scatcherd in ""Jane Eyre""). While Elizabeth Gaskell, a personal friend and the first biographer of Charlotte, confirmed that Cowan Bridge was Charlotte's model for Lowood and insisted that conditions there in Charlotte's"
"The Adventure of the Priory School ""The Adventure of the Priory School"", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"". Doyle ranked ""The Adventure of the Priory School"" tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one"
"to get a while back containing Otis's teaching on writing in Elysian Code. Tenth Grade Bleeds Tenth Grade Bleeds is a novel by Heather Brewer, and the third of five books in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod collection. The novel takes place in a town named Bathory. Settings include Vlad's house, Bathory High, Stokerton (Specifically the parking lot and the interior of the council building), and a gothic nightclub called The Crypt. Vlad returns to school for tenth grade and one day he saves a small goth boy named Sprat, who was being bullied by Bill and Tom. Later on"